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Judge’s wife dead, son ‘brain dead’ Gurugram: The wife of AdditionalDistrict and Sessions Judge Kris-han Kant, who was shot at by herhusband's security guard on Sat-urday, died while their teenagerson is "brain dead", doctors saidon Sunday.

Jana to tameKodandaram

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Hyderabad: The TelanganaPradesh Congress corecommittee has entrustedthe responsibility of nego-tiations with the alliancepartners on seat-sharingto former CLP leader Kun-duru Jana Reddy.

As soon as hewas given thenew assign-ment, JanaReddy re-ceived a dele-gation ofTelangana JanaSamiti (TJS)leaders and dis-cussed thethorny issuesrelating toseat-sharing.According toTJS sources,they have sub-mitted a list of 36candidates to the Congress.

Speaking to media per-sons later, TJS leader KDilip Kumar said that theywanted the Congress tocomplete the seat-sharingexercise at the earliest andindicate the names of theseats to be left to the TJS.He said the TJS was notparticular about whichseats should be given to it.

Jana Reddy was giventhe assignment tostraighten the bumps inthe alliance by holdingtalks with M Kodandaramof the TJS, L Ramana of

TTDP and Chada VenkatReddy of the CPI andstraighten the bumps inthe alliance. Jana Reddywas advised by the corecommittee to take Kodan-daram into confidence ashe has been issuing dead-lines for the Congress on

seat sharing.Earlier this

week, Kodan-daram told theCongress tosettle the seatsharing issue

as early as pos-sible. He was

angry with theCongress for

dragging thetalks inter-minably onthe issue.

While Ko-dandaram has

been demandingabout 20 seats to

his party, the Congress isnot inclined to that. Itwants to convince theTJS on the number ofseats and the need to con-tinue the alliance.

As part of the talks, JanaReddy may make some pro-posals to Kodandaram. Hemay ensure some MLCseats to the TJS from the 19seats falling vacant in 2019.He may also promise an im-portant post in the govern-ment to Kodandaramwhich would have the sta-tus of deputy chief minister.

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MEETS TJS TEAM; TO HAMMER OUT SEAT-SHARING

Indian cricket team players pose with winning trophy a�er bea�ng West Indies in the secondcricket test match, in Hyderabad on Sunday

India crush WIHyderabad: India registeredtheir tenth consecutive Testseries win at home as ViratKohli's men crushed theWest Indies by 10 wickets inthe second and final cricketTest at the Rajiv Gandhi In-ternational Stadium here onSunday.

Once again, it was a cake-walk for India in the secondinnings after being handeda paltry 72-run target by thetourists. Openers PrithviShaw (33 not out) andLokesh Rahul (33 not out)guided the side home withease in just 16.1 overs on thethird day of the Test.

After scoring 367 runs intheir first innings in reply tothe West Indies' 311, Indiabowled out the visitors for127 runs in the second in-nings on Sunday, settingthemselves a 72-run target.

Pacer Umesh Yadav was

the wrecker-in-chief withmatch figures of 10/133 andbecame the third Indianpacer with a ten-wicket haulin a home Test. The right-armer, who had figures of6/88 in the first innings,bagged four wickets in thesecond innings conced-ing 45 runs andwas also ad-judged the'Man of theMatch'.

India hadcrushed thetourists by aninnings and272 runs in thefirst Test at Rajkot.

On Sunday, Indiaresumed the proceedings at308/4 and lost five wicketsin quick succession beforeRavichandran Ashwin (35)and Shardul Thakur (4 notout) added 28 runs for the

last wicket. Pacer and skip-per Jason Holder returnedwith impressive figures of5/56 as he shattered the In-dian lower middle order.

Ajinkya Rahane (80) fell toHolder early in the morningsession after adding just five

runs to his overnightscore. Holder then

dismissed Ravin-dra Jadeja on a

duck, whilepacer Shan-non Gabrielpacked back a

well settledPant (92) to

leave India reel-ing at 322/7.

Kuldeep Yadav too fellcheaply to Holder after con-tributing six runs whileUmesh Yadav (2) also failedto make much impact as In-dia's scorecard read 339/9.

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WIN BY 10 WICKETS; SEAL SERIES 2-0

BRIEFSCORES

West Indies: 311 and 127(Sunil Ambris 38, Shai Hope

28; Umesh Yadav 4/45) lost toIndia: 367 and 75/0 (Lokesh

Rahul 33 not out, PrithviShaw 33 not out) by

10 wickets

Braving rain, devotees witness Garuda VahanaSeva at Tirumala on Sunday as part ofNavaratri Brahmotsavams

Photo: Kalakata Radhakrishna

MJ Akbar quits?New Delhi: Union minister MJ Akbar has submitted his resigna-tion to the Prime Minister's Of-fice (PMO) via an email on Sun-day over allegations of sexualharassment by a number ofwomen journalists, reports anews channel. Akbar, a juniorminister of foreign affairs, hasalso sought an appointment withMinister of External AffairsSushma Swaraj as a courtesycall, the report said. A final callwill however be taken by PrimeMinister Narendra Modi. S P13

TRS tribal face MLC Ramulu Naik joins Cong

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Hyderabad: In a majorsetback to the TelanganaRashtra Samiti (TRS),party’s tribal face andMLC Ramulu Naik joinedthe Congress on Sunday.

According to sources,Naik met Congress a�airsin-charge R C Khuntia inGolconda hotel, wherethe latter welcomed himinto the Congress fold.

Political heat is shoot-ing up in the state asleaders like migratorybirds are changing par-ties. While the TRS hasbeen enticing Opposi-tion leaders, the disgrun-

tled leaders in the pinkparty are searching forgreener pastures.

According to reliablesources, Ramulu Naik,during his meeting withKhuntia sought Con-gress ticket to contestfrom the Yellandu As-sembly constituency. Ra-mulu Naik had expectedTRS ticket. However,

with the party policy isfor allotting tickets to sit-ting MLAs, sitting MLAM Bhupal Reddy hasbeen re-nominated forNarayankhed.

This would be the sec-ond prominent triballeader in the TRS to leavethe party in the recenttimes. Earlier, RameshRathod, who was withthe ruling party a yearago, joined the Congressrecently. Rathod was un-happy with the party fordenying ticket to him. Infact, he had joined theTRS only after the assur-ance of ticket fromKhanapur.

Trump pushesfor merit-basedimmigrationWashington: US PresidentDonald Trump has said thathe wants people with merit,who can help, to enter thecountry and not sneak insidethe border illegally.

“I’m very tough at the bor-ders. We’ve been very toughat the borders. People haveto come into our countrylegally, not illegally. Legally.And I want them to come inon merit,” Trump told re-porters at the White Houseon Saturday.

Responding to a series ofquestion on illegal immigra-tion, the president reiteratedthat he wants people based onmerit, a move that can helptechnology professionalsfrom countries such as India.“What I want is merit. I wanta lot of people to come in.

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BIG JOLT TO PINK PARTY

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ON COP WHO LED ATTACKON MAOISTS AWARDED

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CITY2HYDERABAD MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 2018

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Hyderabad: A 45-year-oldwoman from Saroornagar al-legedly tried to commit sui-cide by drowning herself intoSaroornagar tank.

“The woman was identifiedas Gangamma. She has not re-vealed any of her personal in-formation," said Saroornagarpolice.

On Sunday morning,Gangamma when trieddrowning herself into Saroor-nagar tank, with the help ofYadaiah, Ramesh of Saroor-nagar lake outpost station rescued her from drowninginto the lake.

After counselling her policeshifted her to an old age homein Saroornagar. Police saidshe lived a solitary life andwas su�ering from livelihoodproblems.

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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad De-tective Department (DD) DCPAvinash Mohanty, who has beeninvestigating the infamous Bho-jagutta land scam case, worth Rs300 crore, which came to light inlast June by the arrest of a lawyerB Sailesh Saxena, came across theshocking facts when they madethe arrest of other two accusedin the case.

The main accused in the casehas not only hatched the conspir-acy, but also posed challenges tothe CCS sleuths during the inves-tigation. A new angle in the casehas come to light when police ar-rested Mohammed Amjad Khan,54, a realtor from Zaheerabad andMahmood Patel, 65, from Bidar,besides serving notices to Mo-hammed Abdul Ghani, 55, a real-

tor from Bidar, for their involve-ment in the crime.

According to police, govern-ment land of 78 acres and 22 gun-tas situated at Gudimalkapur vil-lage of Asif Nagar mandal wasclaimed by the accused B SaileshSaxena. With an eye on land, Sax-ena has filed a land grabbing caseagainst fictitious persons namelyIqbal Islam Khan, Najmuddin Is-lam Khan, Habeebuddin IslamKhan and Ifthekar Islam Khan.Saxena further filed various writpetitions on the above land in thename of above fictitious personsand obtained interim ordersagainst the government and oth-ers. Subsequently on July 4, 2017,the High Court by a common or-der dismissed the writ petitionsterming that the petitions werefiled by non-existing persons, anddirected the Registrar to lodge an

FIR. There upon on the com-plaint of Judicial Registrar, a casewas registered and investigationinto the case was taken up.

During investigation, advocateB Sailesh Saxena was arrested andremanded to judicial custody. Af-ter getting released from jail, Sax-ena planned to derail the investi-gation process of cases registeredagainst him by lodging false com-plaints against the investigationo�cers and higher o�cials ofCCS, DD, Hyderabad, as to pre-vent them from going ahead inthe cases registered against him.

Saxena and his aide, AizazAhmed, filed a private complaintagainst the police o�cers andothers in various courts and filedwrit petitions seeking the courtto direct the SHO, Malakpet toregister an FIR against the saido�cials. However, they were dis-

missed by the court. Since theHigh Court dismissed the writ pe-titions, the accused planned tocreate the physical identity fornon-existent persons andplanned to get some persons toimpersonate as Najmuddin IslamKhan, Habeeb Islam Khan andIfthekhar Islam Khan.

Accordingly, Saxena met AbdulGhani and convinced him that hewanted to transfer the propertyin the name of three persons toavoid legal issues and promisedto give good money to do thefavour. Ghani convinced threepersons Mohammed AmjadKhan, Mahmood Patel and SyedGafoor Hashmi (72, Bidar). Soon,Saxena took their Aadhaar cardsand photos and convinced themto get change their names andparentage and address. He alongwith Ghani took them to Bidar toone Aadhar service centre, wherethe advocate got changed thename of Mohammed AmjadKhan as Najmuddin Islam Khan,Mahmood Patel as Habeeb IslamKhan and Syed Gafoor Hashmi asIfthekar Islam Khan. By usingAadhaar cards, he obtained PANcards, voter ID cards. Later, Sax-ena took them to Syndicate Bankof Bahadurpura branch andopened the bank account in thename of fictitious persons by pro-ducing the said imposters as gen-uine persons and using new Aadhaar cards.

CCS police by filing cases underSections 419, 420, 466, 467, 468,471, 427, 380 and 120(b) IPC ar-rested two accused. Police said ef-forts were on to nab Syed GafoorHashmi soon.

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Hyderabad: Participants of 69thbatch of Vaktha, felt that attendingthe training session on publicspeaking was nothing less thancrossing a ‘milestone’ in life, as ithad completely transformed theiroutlook within two-days. Jointlyorganised by Hmtv and KaushalyaSchool of Life Skills, the two-daytraining was held in Jubilee Hillson October 13 and 14.

Several aspiring politicians andsocial workers filled with high levelof self-confidence vowed to bringan impact in the society with theirenhanced communication skills.Some of them felt a completechange in their attitude and bodylanguage within two-days of train-ing and asserted to maintain poise.

The Director (Training), KapilGroup and the lead faculty of theprogramme D Bal Reddy gave tipson public speaking asked the par-ticipants to practice them regu-

larly, if they were seriously aimingto change themselves into good or-ators. Public speaking, he ex-plained, was a kind of skill, whicheveryone could learn by regularpractice. S Anand Parjanya, fac-ulty on body language trained theparticipants on maintaining theirposture while delivering a speechand communicating at a publicplace. He explained as to how theOrator, should communicate thesubject with the coordinating ac-tions of hands. K Srikanth, anotherfaculty explained important tech-niques of Voice Modulation, sincea good speaker maintains a hightone while delivering the speech.He made students practice someof the important tips and showedhow voice culture and modulationcan make a person an e�ectivepublic speaker.

While providing their feedback,S Kiran Kumar from Warangal re-called how he used to avoid gettingon stage and now after attending

the training he felt a completechange in himself and was able totalk with confidence. He describedthe Vaktha as the best platform tolearn techniques towards becom-ing a good Orator. He felt likecrossing a milestone in his life af-

ter attending the training. PSailaja, an aspiring politicianhoped that this training would behelpful for reaching heights in herpolitical career. A Dhruva ChandraReddy, another participant feltthat all his rousing queries towards

becoming a public speaker wereanswered within 2-days of train-ing. The 70th batch of Vakthawill be held on November 10 and11. For further information inter-ested persons may contact onphone number – 9553586062.

More skeletons tumble out inBhojagutta land scam caseSSAccused creates

fake Aadhaar cards to claim Rs 300 crworth govt land

SS Files cases and writpetitions against CCSpolice to derail theinvestigation process

SS Detective DepartmentDCP says negligenceof Aadhaar centrestaff facilitated thecheater to get thecards easily

Attending Vaktha a milestone in life: Participants

Par�cipants of 69th batch of Vaktha with D Bal Reddy (in the middle), Director (Training), Kapil Group in Hyderabad on Sunday

Police rescuewoman fromending life

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Hyderabad: A case has been filedagainst famous Telugu lyricistSuddala Ashok Teja at Pun-jagutta Police station. The victimRayala Padmavathi approachedMetropolitan court alleging thatmanaging director of a real estatecompany Kiran Kumar Reddy inYadadri-Bhongir district tookmoney for plot and deceived her.

Victim alleged that SuddalaAshok Teja was campaigner forreal estate company, SoubhagyaPavitra Bhoomi Township Pri-

vate Limited in Turkapally inYadadri-Bhongir. Victim said, “SAshok Teja attended the opening

programme and released promo-tional pamphlets.” Rayala Pad-mavathi and her husband paid Rs2 lakh to purchase a plot as SAshok Teja was acting as its cam-paigner.

She said Kiran Kumar Reddywas threatening the couplewhenever they questioned aboutthe plot. Victims then ap-proached the XIV MetropolitanCourt and filed a petition in thisregard and court directed thePunjagutta police to register acase against the culprits underrelevant sections.

Gas tankerturns turtle atShamirpet ORR Hyderabad: A tanker loadedwith HP gas turned turtle nearShamirpet ORR tollgate onSunday evening. Accident oc-curred when driver was chang-ing the speed track nearShamirpet tollgate. “Vehiclelost its control and turned tur-tle into a ditch. However, tankgot detached and kept rollingaway from the road. Surpris-ingly there was no gas leak-age,” said Shamirpet SI, AbdulRazaq. “Gas truck driver is incritical condition; his chestwas almost punctured. We im-mediately shifted him toYashoda Hospital and then toGandhi Hospital for treat-ment,” added Police.

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Hyderabad: Girl student,Sandhya (20), who attemptedto commit suicide in the Mal-lareddy Engineering Collegehostel on Wednesday, died in

Mallareddy Narayana multi-speciality hospital atJeedimetla on Sunday.

Tension built up at collegeon Sunday as students stagedprotest on learning that thegirl student died. Sandhya’s

parents too joined the protest. The student criticisedthe college management forshifting the body of the girlstudent to Gandhi Hospitalmortuary without informing it to her parents.

Case filed against Telugu lyricist

GIRL STUDENT SUICIDE

Students stage protest at Mallareddy Engineering College

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Hyderabad: The Telangana VidhyaParirakshana Committee (TVPC)has urged the political parties to in-clude its education-related demandsin election manifesto.

TVPC was proposing demands in-cluding allocation of at least 20 percent of State Budget and 10 per centof Central Budget for Education, in-troduction of pre-primary educa-tion in all government schools, de-veloping every high school into a

residential school, filling of teachingand non-teaching posts in all gov-ernment educational institutions atall levels and abolition of PrivateUniversities Bill, withdrawal ofUGC circular prohibiting teachersto criticise the policies of adminis-tration and government. In view of

the ensuing Assembly elections,the Telangana Save EducationCommittee (TSEC) appealed to allpolitical parties to include all theirdemands in their manifestos andpromise equitable and quality ed-ucation to all downtrodden peoplein the State. Noted educationists

Prof. G Haragopal, Prof. KChakradhar Rao, Prof. K Laxmi-narayana, Maisa Srinivasulu,PDSU State secretary BoinapallyRamu and others made this re-quest while addressing media hereon Sunday.

The 100-day Education Struggle

march taken up by Telangana Vid-hya Parirakshana Committee(TVPC), which started from Telan-gana Martyr’s memorial at Gun-park on September 14, completedsix districts --- Jangaon, WarangalUrban, Mahbubnagar, Gadwal andKamareddy in first phase.

The second phase of the yatrawill commence from October 26and will cover six more districts --- Siddipet, Medchal, Bhupalpally,Bhongir, Jagtial and Khammam byOctober 28.

TVPC for inclusion of edn-related demands in election manifesto

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Hyderabad: Maharashtra Direc-tor General of Police Datta Pad-salgikar visited the Punjaguttapolice station on Sunday. Hewas welcomed by his Telanganacounterpart M MahendarReddy and his team of officials.Padsalgikar was here to studyand understand smart policinginitiatives taken up by the Statepolice. Earlier on Saturday, Ma-

hendar Reddy accompaniedPadsalgikar to TS police head-quarters to demonstrate thefunctioning of 24x7 CCTV mon-itoring in the city. On Sunday,Padsalgikar visited the Pun-jagutta police station where hewas explained about internalfunctioning of applications like‘Hawk Eye’, used by the Telan-gana police to maintain law andorder. While appreciating theTelangana police for the use of

technology, Padsalgikar statedthat the utilisation of techno-logical resources by the Telan-gana police was inspiring. Ma-hender Reddy said, “We areusing the best policing technol-ogy in India and our aim is toinstall 10 lakh CCTV cameras inHyderabad to make it a crime-free city. Very soon, we will behaving a Command ControlCentre in the heart of the city,Banjara Hills.”

Director General of Police Mahender Reddy explaining about the technologies used in policing to his Maharashtra counterpartDa�a Padsalgikar during the la�er’s visit to Punjagu�a police sta�on on Sunday. City Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar also seen

Maha DGP pats TS police formaking strides in tech use

DGP Mahendar Reddy explains the use of technologies inpolicing to his Maharashtra counterpart Datta Padsalgikar

CRIME NEWS

3HYDERABAD MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 2018 TELANGANA

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Hyderabad: Nizamabad MP KKavitha on Sunday said thatCongress leader Vijayashantihas no right to criticise TRS asthe latter had left the party to join Congress during 2014elections.

Kavitha took exception tothe criticism of the Congressleader and alleged that the ac-tor-turned-politician wasadopting dual standards andmaking comments on TRSleadership. Vijayashanti duringthe Congress campaign hadsaid that TRS chief K Chan-drashekar Rao had deceivedher, and would cheat the people in a same way if votedto power in the upcoming elections.

Stating that Vijayashantiwas making cheap commentson TRS, Kavitha said there wasnot an iota of truth to com-ments that Vijayashanti wasshown the door only to makeway for Kavitha, KTR and oth-ers in the party.

Kavitha further added thatthe TRS did not suspend Vi-jayashanti from the party but

she herself quit the party. “Vi-jayashanti spoke in favour ofTRS before getting the ticket,and criticised it after the elec-tions. She joined the Congressby receiving a shawl from AICCleader Digvijaya Singh. Insteadof standing in support of TRSpresident KCR, Vijayashanti leftthe TRS unmindful of generalsecretary post,” Kavitha said.

The Nizamabad MP also al-leged that the Centre had failedto keep the bifurcation prom-

ises so far. Refuting the chargesthat the TRS chief had side-lined Harish Rao for makinghis son K T Rama Rao as nextChief Minister, Kavitha saidthe charges were part of a mis-guiding propaganda for cheappublicity. “KCR’s word is finalin the party, which has nogroups. The party’s decision isfinal on whether to have awoman in the cabinet or not.We have no comments onthat,” she said.

Kavitha returns Vijayashanti fire S Terms allegations against TRS and its chief

K Chandrashekar Rao baseless

S Clarifies that the actor-turned-politician had willingly left TRS and embraced Congress during 2014 elections undermining the post of TRSgeneral secretary which was offered to her

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Hyderabad : Pavan of HMTVbagged the best journalistaward 2018 of the TwinCities Electronic Media As-sociation. He was presentedthe award by former Bolly-wood actor Rahul Roy of‘Aashique’ fame at CrystalGardens, here, on Sunday.

Addressing the gathering,Rahul Roy praised Pavan forfighting against corruptionon behalf of the people. ‘It isa matter of pleasure that I

am presenting the award tohim’, he stated.

In his address, AdditionalCity Police Commissioner D S Chauhan lauded the ef-forts of the awardee for hisrelentless work in dischargeof duty.

Other speakers praisedHMTV for standing by thepeople during the separateTelangana agitation.

Pavan stated that theaward had only increased hisresponsibility towards theprofession.

HMTV scribe bags BestJournalist Award 2018

Pavan of HMTV receiving Best Journalist Award 2018 of the Twin Ci�esElectronic Media Associa�on from Bollywood actor Rahul Roy inHyderabad on Sunday

TRAVEL TRAVAILS…

As the �me is �cking fast for the much‐awaited Dasara fes�val, Secunderabad Railway Sta�on from where scores of trains arebeing operated to every nook and corner of the country is burs�ng at seams with the passengers desperately trying to boardcrammed trains to reach their na�ve places in the two Telugu States. The mad rush at the railway sta�on gave touts and portersan opportunity to make a quick buck. Photo: Srinivas Se�y

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Hyderabad: Irrigation Minister THarish Rao on Sunday said thatnational parties like BharatiyaJanata Party and Congress wereopportunistic and only focused onvotes rather than protecting theinterests of people.

Addressing a gathering at Telan-gana Bhavan where former MLAand BJP leader K Satyanarayanajoined the ruling party on Sunday,Harish Rao said that it was onlyTRS and Chief Minister K Chan-drashekar Rao, who were inter-ested in protecting the interests ofpeople. “The BJP had alliance withTelugu Desam in 2014, to get somevotes and seats and handed overseven mandals to Andhra Pradeshand also a power plant which couldgenerate revenue of Rs 1 crore perday. Similarly, now the Congressparty is aligning with TDP only forvotes. Whereas, TRS cares for in-terests of people,” said Harish.

Raising the issues of Bayyaramsteel plant and division of HighCourt, Harish alleged that the Cen-tre had given national project sta-tus to Polavaram, but not toKaleshwaram or Palamuru despiteChief Minister K ChandrashekarRao requesting for it. The BJP gov-ernment at Centre gave Rs 12,000crore for projects in Maharashtra,but not a dime to Telangana.

Stating that BJP did nothing forpeople of the country, Harishadded, “Except for making peoplestand in queues and taking awaythe savings money of women in the

name of demonetisation, the BJPhas done nothing. Don’t knowwhere the black money is? TheTRS has brought 400 newschemes for people. Can the BJPleaders speak about single goodscheme which it has brought forthe people?”

Lashing out at BJP chief AmitShah, the Minister said that AmitShah talks all lies whenever hecomes to Telangana. “People knowwhat is happening in BJP. Theyknow the petrol rates are increas-ing every day. Amit Shah shouldtake inspiration from Telanganaschemes and implement them intheir party-ruled States,” he said.

Home Minister NainiNarasimha Reddy said that itwould be a big achievement if BJPcould retain at least five seats andstated that TRS would the nextgovernment by winning over 100seats. Satyanarayana said that peo-ple who respect him should votefor TRS candidate Mahipal Reddyin Patancheru constituency.

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Hyderabad: The highest daytemperature of 36 degreesCelsius was recorded inBhadrachalam and Mahbub-nagar during the last 24 hoursending at 8:30 am on Sunday.The Met department bulletinsaid while Khammam and Ra-magundam recorded the sec-

ond highest maximum tem-perature of 35 degrees Cel-sius each, Adilabad, Hyder-abad, Medak and Nizamabadregistered 34 degrees Celsiuseach. The day temperaturesin the State were:Hanamkonda 33, Hakimpet,Nalgonda 32 each.

According to the bulletin,while Adilabad, with the night

temperature of 16 degrees Cel-sius, was the coolest place inthe State, Medak stood secondwith 17 degrees Celsius.

The other minimum temper-ature registered in the Statewere: Hakimpet 21, Hyderabad,Nizamabad 22 each, Mahbub-nagar, Hanamkonda, Rama-gundam 23 each, Nalgonda 24,Bhadrachalam 26.

Day temperatures on rise in TS

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Hyderabad: Telangana Congresspresident N Uttam Kumar Reddyon Sunday asked caretaker ChiefMinister K Chandrashekhar Raoto explain as to why he had dis-solved the Assembly nine monthsahead of schedule if people werehappy with the performance ofhis government.

Addressing a meeting on theoccasion of joining of ex-naxalitesunder the leadership of BheemBharat into Congress party, Ut-tam said KCR’s government dis-appointed all sections of the so-ciety with its misrule forfour-and-a-half years. He said nota single major electoral promisewas fulfilled by KCR. Sensing therising dissent and angst amongpeople towards TRS government,KCR had dissolved the Assemblyto advance the elections. “Ifeverything was going on well,

then why KCR did not completehis full term?” he asked.

Uttam said Chandrashekar Raowas wrong in expecting that peo-ple would not notice his cheatingand failures. “All sections includ-ing women, youngsters, students,Dalits, Girijans, BCs, Muslims andothers are feeling betrayed by theTRS government and are await-ing next elections to take revenge.Fortunately for people, KCR hasgiven an opportunity to get rid ofhis ine�cient and corrupt gov-ernment,” he said.

Stating that just 54 days wereleft for elections, the TPCC Chiefappealed to everyone to take outthe voters' list, make a list of theirrelatives, friends, neighbours andfamily members and call each ofthem appealing to vote for Con-gress party. He said each andevery Congress worker and sym-pathiser must play an active rolein putting an end to the dictato-

rial rule of KCR. Uttam allegedthat the Chandrashekar Rao’sfamily had looted thousands ofcrores of public money through“Corruption Bhagiratha”, “Cor-ruption Kakatiya” and various ir-rigation projects. “KTR must clar-ify whether or not his familymembers took 6 per cent com-mission from contractors of dif-ferent projects? Now they are try-ing to use same ill-gotten moneyto lure voters with cash andliquor,” he alleged.

Later, PRTU founder presidentand ex-MLC B Mohan Reddy, ex-chairman of Warangal ZillaParishad and TRS leader Satya-narayana Goud and their follow-ers joined the Congress party. TheTPCC chief accorded them awarm welcome into the Congressparty and hoped that that theirvast experience and contactswould benefit the Congress partyacross the State. Alleging that the

TRS regime has cheated theteachers' community, Uttam saidteachers were not promoted evenonce in the last four-and-a-halfyears. He said nearly 4,000 gov-ernment schools were closed un-der TRS regime and Chan-drashekar Rao did not giveappointment to unions to discussthe problems being faced by 1.23lakh teachers. He promised thatthe next Congress governmentwould implement GO 31 to givepromotions to teachers and jus-tice would be meted out to Lan-guage Pandits, PETs and 398 Spe-cial Teachers.

He also promised that the Con-gress government would ensurethe promotion of teachers con-ducted on regular basis in a fairand transparent manner. He alsoannounced that Mohan Reddywould contest as Congress candi-date from Karimnagar TeachersMLC seat.

Uttam lobs poll-vow salvo at KCRFormer MLC Mohan Reddy, former naxals join Congress in Hyderabad

TPCC chief U�am Kumar Reddy welcoming former MLC B Mohan Reddy and others into Congress in Hyderabad on Sunday

Chandrashekar Rao’s family looted thousands of

crores of public money through“Corrup�on Bhagiratha”,“Corrup�on Kaka�ya” andvarious irriga�on projects. KTR must clarify whether or nothis family members took 6 percent commission fromcontractors of differentprojects? They are trying to usesame ill‐go�en money to lurevoters with cash and liquor

—U�am Kumar Reddy, TPCC president

S Alleges thena�onalpar�es have donenothing forthe welfareof people and had alwaysput their poli�cal interestsabove people

S Former MLA and BJPleader K Satyanarayanajoins TRS

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Hyderabad: Cyberabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar reviewed the security arrangement atthe polling stations for the upcoming Assemblyelections. He reviewed the situation at the pollingstations in Rajendra Nagar along withShamshabad DCP Prakash Reddy and other po-lice officials. CP said the Election Commission’s

code of conduct will be executed properly withoutany violations. He said police officials must bevigilant to meet any untoward situation roundthe clock and to conduct the elections procedurepeacefully.

Later he reviewed the arrangements for Sikh’srally at Attapur which will be held on Dussehra.He visited the Gurudwara and interacted withthe elders of Sikh community.

Sajjanar reviews security arrangements at polling stations

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The stage seems to be ready for high octane poll cam-paign once the Navaratri festival is over. While Chief

Minister K Chandrashekar Rao is busy giving finaltouches to the party manifesto. It is believed that it willbe full of promises and would aim to cater to the inter-ests of di�erent social communities and groups. Thereis every possibility that the party may come up with re-newed loan waiver scheme, revised version of double-bedroom scheme and such big-ticket promises. The TRSseems to be waiting for the grand Opposition allianceto come up with its manifesto so that it can fine tunethe pink manifesto and showcase that the TRS is oneup over other parties. Since the Opposition has beencriticising the TRS that it had failed to move in the di-

rection of creating Bangaru Telangana, the TRS will con-tinue with this slogan and will tell the people that goldplating cannot be left halfway through and for that it isnecessary for the TRS to come back to power.

While KCR is working out minute details with regardto the strategy for series of meetings he would be ad-dressing across the length and breadth of Telangana,the Congress too is in an aggressive mood and has sched-uled the first round of whirlwind campaign tour of RahulGandhi on October 20. Not withstanding the claims ofeach party whether it be the ruling party or the Opposi-tion combine, the fact of the matter remains that thepolitical situation in Telangana is changing by the day.The people’s mood certainly is not what it was in 2014.At that time people were in victory mode and mood.They were celebrating the bifurcation of the State aftera long-drawn struggle. Though it was the Congress withthe help of BJP which passed the AP State Reorganisa-tion Act 2014 and paved the way for formation of the29th State, it was seen as the victory of the TRS. Thetwo national parties were forced by the TRS to carve anew State was the feeling among the people. The prom-ise of converting the new State into Bangaru Telanganaand schemes like double-bedroom houses, resolvingpower and water problems both drinking and irrigationand jobs for youth were seen as bonus from the TRS.

Four years down the line, the State is once again inthe grip of poll fever. The TRS and AIMIM feel that the

pink party would romp back to power with absolute ma-jority. But the ground situation indicates that the jour-ney is full of potholes and the ride cannot be a smoothone. From a situation where it was unchallenged TRSin 2014, the situation has changed to a level where theTRS is facing anti-incumbency factor. People may behappy with KCR but what matters is the opinion of thepeople about their public representative who led themin the last four years. There are many constituencieswhere people may be happy with the schemes of theTRS president but are not happy with their MLAs. Thatis why KCR has adopted a master strategy to once againrake up the T sentiment and is criticising TDP and itsleader N Chandrababu Naidu in harshest possible lan-guage. He knows that his language is not decent but thenhe also knows that it would become the talk of the townamong people and other negative points may go intobackground. The results alone will tell us to what extendhis calculation was correct.

At the same time, overdose of everything could bedangerous. While it is natural to take credit for all theschemes introduced by the TRS government and prom-ising bigger moon and calling him as poor man’s CM isunderstandable but saying that KCR is next only to per-sonalities like Indira Gandhi and NTR sounds more likean egoistic statement, the voters in urban and rural areasfeel. But then, all is well in love and war. It’s time peopleget ready to bear all kinds of cacophony from all parties.

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blowing in China.A one-child policywas implementedin the eighties. Afamily had to pay ahefty fine if it pro-duced a secondchild. The preg-

nant woman was forced to undergo anabortion if the family was not able to paythe fine. The rate of population growthdeclined steeply, as a result, from 3.6births per woman to 1.8 births per womanpresently. Less than two births perwoman means that two living persons aregiving birth to lesser numbers. The pop-ulation will therefore decline. This may,however, not happen immediately be-cause life expectancy is increasing, andpeople are living longer. In a few years,however, the lower birth rate will catchup and the total population is expectedto start declining.

China has got immense economic ben-efits from the one-child policy in the lasttwo decades. Mao Zedong has encouragedthe Chinese people to produce more chil-dren. Large number of births took placein the three decades of fifties, sixties andseventies. These large numbers of per-sons joined the workforce beginning theeighties. The availability of labour in-creased and production shot up. Simul-taneously, a one-child policy was imple-mented in the eighties. That led toreduced burden of childbearing and chil-drearing on the families and enabledthem to undertake yet more productivework in farms and factories. This was amajor factor that begot high economicgrowth rates of 10 percent-plus after thenineties.

The situation changed dramaticallyaround 2010. The large numbers of baby-boomers born till 1980 started becomingold. As a result, many working personshad two parents and four grandparentsto support. On the other hand, lessernumbers of births after 1980s led to fewerpersons joining the workforce. The ratioof elderly dependents and working per-sons got highly skewed in favour of de-pendents. On the other hand, lesser num-bers of births after 1980s led to fewerpersons joining the workforce. Energiesof people were directed more towardstaking care of the elderly; and less towardincreasing production. According tomany analysts, this has been a major fac-tor contributing to the decline in the

growth rate after 2010. It is clear from theabove sequence of events that populationcontrol has only a short-term benefit.This is called ‘demographic dividend.’There are benefits if larger number ofpersons join the workforce. But this iscancelled by the larger number of de-pendents later. Similar conclusions areobtained from a review of experiences ofother countries. Professor at Universityof Maryland Julian Simon notes thatdensely populated countries like Holland,Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore havehad high rates of growth while sparselypopulated Africa has had low rates ofgrowth. A study by the Population Re-search Institute tells us that between1900 and 2000 the population of theUnited States increased from 76 millionto 270 million. The average life ex-pectancy increased in this same periodfrom 47 years to 77 years; and Standardand Poor’s Share Index rose from 6.2 to1430. These, he says, indicate the positiveimpact of population growth on economy.A report by Bloomberg says: “SingaporePrime Minister Lee Hsien Loong last No-vember told that encouraging citizens tohave more children is the city-state’sbiggest challenge. The government an-nounced in January a plan to spend 25percent more for fertility-treatmentfunding, paternity leave, housing assis-tance, and other measures to encouragefamilies to have more children. South Ko-rea has one of the world’s fastest-agingpopulations, too, with a birth rate of just1.24 children per woman in 2011, well be-low the minimum replacement rate of 2.1children. South Korea’s government istrying to address a shrinking workforceby opening to immigration from suchplaces as Nepal; the number of immi-grants has increased sevenfold since2000 and immigrants as a percentage ofthe population could top 6 percent by2030, compared with 2.8 percent now. Itis clear that the population has a positiveimpact on economic growth. The matteris really quite simple. Economic growthcomes from increased production whichrequires a bigger workforce and higherpopulation.

Contrary to above finding, United Na-tion’s agency UNFPA, as most of ourmainstream economists, says that higherpopulation deprives children of educa-tion, their productive capacities are notdeveloped and they are not able to add toproduction. I am not convinced. Educa-tion can be provided to the people by cut-ting other consumption and expendi-tures. The King’s Palace can be used for

running a school, for example. Or surplusgovernment employees in other depart-ments can be deployed in schools. Weshould also remember that the require-ment of educated workers depends uponthe technological makeup of the econ-omy. A tractor driver holding an MA de-gree does not add more to the economythan one who has gone to high schoolonly. The presence of large numbers ofeducated unemployed points to the samedirection. The correct situation is thatpopulation is an asset of it is engaged inproduction; and a liability if unemployed.Therefore, policies to create employmentalong with an increase in population willbeget higher economic growth.

Second argument extended by UNFPAis that standard of living declines with in-creasing population because it becomesdi�cult for the government to providenecessary infrastructure such as educa-tion and roads. Again, I am not convinced.The ability of the government to provideinfrastructure depends upon revenueswhich, in turn, depends upon whetherworkers are productively employed. Anemployed person produces more than thecost of services provided to him by thegovernment. Thus, the strategy should beto increase population, provide them

with jobs, collect more taxes and providemore facilities.

My assessment is that the hype aboutpopulation being a ‘problem’ has beencreated by the businesses to encouragewomen to enter the workforce andthereby reduce the cost of labour and anincrease in profits. Women are preoccu-pied with homemaking if they have morechildren. Indeed, it is true that less num-bers of births begets higher rates of eco-nomic growth as has happened in Chinatill the first decade of this century. Butthis is a shortsighted policy because soonthe number of workers reduces and thegrowth rate su�ers as is happening inChina now. The Chinese government haslearnt this hard truth and has now madethe one-child policy a bit lenient. Onlycouples who were both single child oftheir parents were allowed to have a sec-ond child. Now couples where one of thetwo persons is a single child will be al-lowed to bear another child. This step isin the right direction. The lesson for Indiais that we must focus on making eco-nomic policies that provide employmentinstead of trying to curtail population.

Author was formerly Professor of Economics at IIM Bengaluru

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Until that evening in Jakarta when the country celebrated hersuccess with much fanfare, everything about heptathlete Swapna

Barman spelt hardship. From extreme poverty to physical deformityof the kind that threatened to time and again derail her ambition,Swapna pushed every odd to its limits on course to become the firstIndian heptathlete to win an Asian Games gold. But by the 21-yearold's own admission, getting a government job, and certainly not agold medal, was her priority when she set sail.

“When I started with high jump in my locality and used to takepart in local competitions back home, my target was to somehow geta government job. That was my dream then,” Swapna said.

Swapna is the youngest among four children of her parents, whoeven now struggle to make ends meet. Belonging to the Rajbongshitribe in North Bengal, Swapna's mother worked as a maid and doubledup as a plucker in tea gardens.

Her father, Panchanan Barman, pulled a van rickshaw until he be-came bedridden following a stroke seven years ago.

“My other three brothers and sisters struggled to make a living. Iam the youngest. So, my father thought if I eke out something fromsports, that would be helpful for the family.”

“All I wanted was a small-time job,” said Swapna, who besides fi-nancial hurdles had to overcome the hurdle of having six toes in bothher feet to produce her career-best performance by logging 6,026 ag-gregate points from the gruelling seven events spread across twodays in August.

“My dream now is to take my country further ahead and make allof you proud,” added Swapna, while continuously stressing that sheshould not be treated di�erently now as the journey has just begun.

Her story began in a narrow lane between paddy fields that leadsto Ghoshpara village where Swapna ran for the first time in her life.

In her first event, after the shift, Swapna racked up 4,431 pointsand got silver at Guntur in 2013. From then on, Swapna took o� andnever looked back.

In a small town, there was anold house which was reputed

to be the residence of a demon.Nobody even dared to enter thehouse.

One day, a brave man an-nounced that he is going tospend a whole night in thishouse. In the evening, he wentinto the house to stay there forthe night.

Another man, who thought hewas braver than the first, also de-cided that he is going to spendthe night in the house of the de-mon that day. The first man wasalready inside when the otherman came and tried to open thedoor. When he pushed openedthe door, the man inside thoughtthe demon had come and put hisshoulder to the door to close it.

The man outside also gave hisshoulder to the door and dideverything possible to open it.This struggle went on, both ofthem thinking the demon wason the other side. The wholenight went by in this exercise,

and when light dawned uponthem in the morning, they re-alised they were two men, justlike each other, very similar.

There are too many situationslike this in the world. Peoplethink they are the good guys andthat they are fighting the badguys. Essentially, both sides

think the other side is the badguy. People always believe thatthey are good and somebodyelse is bad. That is the only waythey can carry on their missionsin the world. The man who is la-belled as a terrorist in the world,thinks he is very good. The bet-ter he thinks he is, the more hor-

rible he becomes for us. Who isgood and who is bad essentiallydepends on what you have iden-tified yourself with – whetherreligion, nationality or someother factor.

Fundamentally, every humanbeing first needs to work onhimself. The first and foremost

responsibility of any human be-ing should be to take charge ofhis interiority and become a joy-ous person. When you arehappy, you are a very generoushuman being, aren’t you? Whenyou are unhappy, you are a dan-gerous person. So, the first andforemost responsibility is to es-tablish yourself as a joyous hu-man being.

If this does not happen, withgood intentions, we will causegreat su�ering on this planet –which is what is happening to-day. If you do not know how tomanage your body, mind oremotions, how will you managethe world? If you do not knowhow to take care of yourself, youwill definitely not know how totake care of the world. So, thefirst and foremost responsibilityof every human being is to innerengineer yourself. The world de-serves a well-engineered humanbeing with a fantastic sense oflife.

Sadhguru, Isha Foundation

Winning tale of grittySwapna Barman

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An Indian-origin man based in north-west England, who su�ersfrom a degenerative eye condition, is set to become the first per-

son in the UK to get a guide horse to assist him with daily tasks oncehe loses his vision completely. Mohammed Salim Patel, a journalistbased in Blackburn at Lancashire, su�ers from a condition called Re-tinitis Pigmentosa, due to which he is left with a very small amountof sight in his right eye and will eventually become totally blind. The24-year-old, who su�ers from a deep-seated fear of dogs since a scarychildhood encounter, could not rely on the more commonly usedguide dogs for the blind and that is how the concept of a miniatureguide horse came to his attention. “Digby (guide horse) is still a babyand will be two years old in May 2019. His training will take aroundtwo more years, so I expect to be able to bring him home to Blackburnonce he's finished his training," Patel said. “There is no rush though,as there would be for a guide dog. Digby will be able to work into his40s, whereas a guide dog has to retire at the age of eight,” he said.After spending some time with his companion-to-be, Patel believesa guide horse has many added benefits over guide dogs, including amuch longer working life, 350-degree vision and ability to see in thedark.

The story of Digby caught the attention of the annual AmplifonAwards for Brave Britons, where the horse is among the finalists inthe Hero Pet category – aimed at honouring animals who have trans-formed the life of their owners. The BBC journalist began workingwith his local station, BBC Radio Lancashire, before moving on toBBC North West Tonight TV after completing a Journalism TraineeScheme. However, it was not an easy journey, being told that a broad-cast journalism course would be too di�cult for a blind person tocomplete.

In a first, Indian-origin blindman to get guide horse in UK Fighting the demon at the door

High lead exposure leads to intellectual disability

High levels of lead contamination in the blood of children livingin India may have a significant impact in lowering their IQ and

increasing the risk of other diseases, a study has found.Researchers from Macquarie University in Australia conducted

the first ever meta-analysis of Indian blood lead levels. They foundthe burden of disease to be significantly larger than previously cal-culated, with negative outcomes on intellectual disability measuresin children. The research calculated the pooled mean blood lead levelfrom data published between 2010 to 2018 to estimate the attributabledisease burden in IQ decrement and Disability Adjusted Life Years(DALYs). The DALY is a measure of overall disease burden, expressedas the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, and earlydeath. Previous studies have estimated 4.6 million lead-attributedDALYs and nearly 165,000 deaths. The new study found that the totalcould be as high as 4.9 million DALYs, or, in other words, 4.9 millionyears lost due to ill-health, disability or early death as a result of thehigh blood lead levels. At low levels, one microgram per deciLitre oflead contamination in the blood causes more than half a point of IQdecrement. For children living in India, whose blood lead level con-tamination is at almost 7 micrograms per deciLitre, the impact onIQ is significant, said Bret Ericson of Macquarie University. "At a so-cietal level, the bell curve of IQ shifts to the left, with more peoplefalling into the intellectually disabled category, and far fewer in thegifted category. The potential impacts on a country's productivityand associated disease burden are, therefore, significant,” Ericsonsaid. India’s significantly elevated blood lead levels can in part, be at-tributed to battery smelting, which is poorly regulated in India, re-searchers said. “These are often processed informally with little orno pollution controls, resulting in significant contamination acrossurban areas,” he said. However, there are also other known causes ofexposure, including ayurvedic medicines, eyeliner, noodles and spices,which continue to cause the high levels of blood lead found in chil-dren, researchers said. The implications of exposure are extremelydetrimental, and with no evidence that the adverse outcomes remitwith age, is calling for better regulation, said Mark Taylor of Mac-quarie University.

MAY YOUR TRIBE FLOURISH!

Dr Bharat Jhunjhunwala

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Stocks.MFs.Bonds.Commodities

Focus on value because

most investorsfocus

on outlooksand trends

-Sir JohnTempleton

Emami Cement files `1,000-cr IPO

Emami Cement filed dra� papers with capital markets regulatorSebi to raise Rs 1,000 crore through an ini�al share sale. The IPO

comprises fresh issuance of shares worth Rs 500 crore, besides, an of-fer of sale of the same size by the company's exis�ng promoters andshareholders, according to the dra� red herring prospectus (DRHP)filed with Sebi. The company said net proceeds raised through the is-sue will be used for re-payment of certain indebtedness and for othergeneral corporate purposes. IIFL Holdings, Axis Capital, CLSA India,Edelweiss Financial Services and Nomura Financial Advisory and Secu-ri�es (India) will manage the company's public issue. The equityshares will be listed on BSE and NSE. The company said it currentlyoperates three manufacturing plants and is in the process of se�ngup another plant, which subject to receipt of necessary approvals, isexpected to result in an aggregate installed capacity of 9.30 MMTPAof cement and 3.20 MMTPA of clinker by April 2019.

Sebi to auction properties of 4 cos

Sebi will auction as many as six properties of four companies, in-cluding Swar Agrotech and Life Care Infratech, next month at a

reserve price totalling Rs 5 crore as the market regulator looks torecover investors' money. Properties of Servehit Housing and In-frastructure India as well as Raghav Capital and Infrastructure willalso go under the hammer. The auction of these land parcelsspread across Uttar Pradesh and Haryana will be conducted onNovember 11, Sebi said in a notice issued. Out of the six proper-ties being put on the block, two each belong to Swar Agrotech In-dia and Life Care Infratech; and one each of Raghav Capital andServehit Housing. The reserve price of these properties amountsto Rs 4.74 crore. The move is part of an effort by the Securitiesand Exchange Board of India (Sebi) to recover money that thesecompanies had illegally mobilised from people. Swar Agrotech,Raghav Capital, Servehit Housing had mobilised funds from thepublic through Collective Investment Scheme (CIS), without get-ting regulatory approvals, while Life Care Infratech had raisedfunds from investors through issuance of securities without com-plying with the public issue norms.

NSE unveils commodity derivatives

National Stock Exchange of India Ltd (NSE), the largest stockexchange on October 12, 2018 launched commodity deriv-

atives segment on NSE platform. The commodity futures con-tracts on Gold (1 Kg), Gold Mini (100 gms) and Silver (30 Kg)are now available for trading on NSE. “To start with, we will fo-cus on key non-agri commodities and gradually broaden ourproduct offerings to agri commodities,” NSE said in a state-ment. The contracts will be physically settled on expiry withAhmedabad as the base centre. The stock exchange is alsoplanning to extend delivery centres to all major metros. Duringthe launch, Vikram Limaye, CEO, NSE, said, “NSE is committedto deepen the Indian commodity markets by providing conven-ient and cost-efficient onshore hedging mechanism for domes-tic as well as global participants. Investors would also be ableto trade in multiple asset classes at a single trading venue onNSE resulting in capital efficiency.”

Investing in stockmarkets, bonds, MFs,

forex and commoditiesis rewarding as well as

risky. In this age oftechnology and

technical analysis, adviceby investment experts,financial advisors and

analysts always comes in handy while investing yourhard-earned money in stocks, bonds, commodities andMFs. Keeping this in view, The Hans India put togethera group of professional analysts and financial advisors

to advice investors on a regular basis. If you are keenon using this service, kindly send your queries relatedyour investments to [email protected]. Our

panel of experts will guide you. Answers to yourquestions will be published in the newspaper

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Indian equity marketsnapped a five-week los-

ing streak after experienc-ing a huge volatility. Themajor indices closed oneper cent higher with thehelp of pullback in heavilycorrected index heavy-weights. During the weekamidst high volatility,global factors impactedthe market sentiments.The rupee is a still a wor-rying factor for country'seconomy though it recov-ered in last three days.Crude oil prices are alsocooled o� from highs of$80 per barrel. Industrialoutput and inflation datawere announced on Fridayafter markets hours. Bothare not encouraging. WithQ2 earning season just be-ginning, markets will wait

for some cues from earn-ings space before reacting.

Globally, the all majorindices are in bearishmode.

Technically, as we saidearlier, the 10,200 is work-ing as support zone for the

Nifty, which exactly fromwhere it bounced formedbullish hammer candle onweekly basis. This is along-term trend line sup-port drawn from February2016 low to December2016 low. As long as 10,200

level is not broken, Niftymay reach 10,615 and10,758 levels, where the in-dex will encounter strongresistance. The Nifty wit-nessed a sharp decline ofmore than 13 per cent inlast six weeks which has

led to an extremely over-sold zone and hence a pull-back from the oversoldterritory was seen on Fri-day's session. Nifty mayconsolidate between10,200 to 10750 range fornext few weeks before tak-ing a decisive direction.The leading indicator RSIis at the historical supportlevel and other indicatorsare also trying to come outof the oversold zone. FIIssold Rs. 17,857.56 worthequities in this month andthe trend will continue.Next week is going to becrucial as five index heavy-weights are declaring theirearnings. We can experi-ence more stock specificactivity and the marketwill consolidate in a zone.

(Hans Research Team)

SNEHA LATHA

Having known aboutwhat commodities are,

let us know how to trade incommodities.

As you know, there are twocommodity exchanges in In-dia – Multi Commodity ex-change (MCX) and NationalCommodity and DerivativeExchange (NCDEX). MCX isparticularly popular for themetals and energy commodi-ties. Let us try to understandhow a commodity contractworks; by considering the ex-ample of gold.

Gold is very activelytraded contract in MCX.And, it is one of the mostpopular bullion contractsthat gets traded on MCX,which comes in a few vari-ants. Here is a list of all thedi�erent types of gold con-tracts.

H GoldH Gold miniH Gold guineaH Gold petal

All these variants belongto the same underlying thatis gold. There is a contractspecification for each com-modity which can be down-

loaded from the MCX web-site. As of today, the price ofgold is Rs 30,672 per 10grams. The lot size is around1kg. So, the contract value

would be 1,000 into Rs30,672 which amounts to Rs30,672,000. To trade in this,we need to maintain a mar-gin amount which is approx-

imately 4 per cent; thisamounts to 1,22,688. How-ever, online margin calcula-tor from various agents likeZerodha help us to calculatethis. Since the amount ishuge it prohibits many retailtraders to take positions ingold. For this reason, thereare contracts like gold miniand petal.

Let us assume that youbuy one lot of gold on MCXthis means you have to parkclose to Rs 1.25 lakh as mar-gin and with each tick youwill make either Rs 100profit or loss. We divide 1,000grams with 10 grams to ar-rive at this.

Gold contract begins onthe 16th day of the contractlaunch month. Gold com-

modity futures contract ex-pires on 5th of every month.One needs to close the posi-tion before first of the expirymonth in order to avoid get-ting into the physical deliv-ery of commodities.

Settlement in equities isalways in cash not physical.However, when it comes tocommodities the settlementis physical and their deliveryis compulsory. This means ifyou hold five lots of gold andyou opt for delivery then youwill get 5 kg of gold. In orderto get the delivery of thecommodity one has to ex-press his intention to do so.This has to be done any timebefore four days to expiry.Since delivery is compulsoryfor gold contracts it makessense to close or square o�this contract at least fourdays before the expiry of thecontract.

(The author is a homemaker who dabbles in

stock market investments in free time)

K NARESH KUMAR

Jim Cramer once famouslysaid that every once in awhile, the market does

something so stupid it takes yourbreath away. Volatility could becomprehended as a norm ratherthan an exception. This occursdue to some news pertaining tothe macro-economic factors likeinflation/deflation, economicgrowth/contraction, political un-certainty/turmoil, regulatory/legislator changes, sector-spe-cific news, etc. or micro factorspertaining to a particular com-pany, its management, its board,product, etc. These factors createan immediate euphoria/fear re-sulting into a particular stock’sup/down movement.

The other important but peri-odic in nature is during the an-nouncement of results. The ana-lysts and market participantsarrive at certain expectations ona company’s financial perform-ance based upon the sector, peerand overall economic activity. Thescrip responds to the actuals bygains and falls respectively de-pending upon the outperfor-mance and underperformance.And sometimes, the stock mightoutperform irrespective of its pastquarter performance purely fromthe guidance the managementprovides for the next quarter andbeyond. Also, the change in themacros could add to the valuationsto be either premium or discount.The current volatility is mostly at-tributed to these changes takingplace in the macros while somepersistent issues in some sectors,aggravated by the changing macroenvironment.

This phenomenon was earlierrestricted to the top stocks in theIndian equity market but with in-vestor awareness and analyststracking; augmenting the volatil-ity entire spectrum of the stock

capitalisations (cap). This in away is a good sign, though in-vestors have to be more activeand vigilant to respond both re-actively and proactively creatingmore pressure. Further, due tothe integration of the global fi-nancial system and the presenceof foreign investors in the domes-tic bourses, the stock market isprone to volatility even for rea-sons beyond the domestic andmicro concerns. The currentplight of Foreign Institutional In-vestors (FIIs) for the past fewquarters is due to the increasinginterest rates in the US and hasimpacted the overall flows acrossthe Emerging Market (Ems). So,in such an environment, howcould investors not only protectthemselves from the unpre-dictability but also play it to theiradvantage?

To be immune to these fluctu-ations is almost not possible butone could contain the loss by us-ing some risk mitigation tools.First, one needs to pick the right

stock in terms of valuations andthe possible growth prospects.And if one is a long-term in-vestor, the intermittent spike/crash shouldn’t really bother andif possible could use the interme-diate bottoms to further increasethe exposures. But, if one is ashort-term player, one has tohave clear set targets for profitbooking and stop-loss while theother way to reduce risk is tohedge with F&O strategy.

Investors should also be waryof an event/news based rally ordrops in a stock and shouldn’tbe catching a falling knife.Hence, avoid exposures whenthere is a sudden fall due to suchan event and wait for the stormto settle to make exposures inthose stocks. Initiate new posi-tions or consolidate existingones in an oversold high-qualitystock if the fall is more genericand not scrip-specific. Also, dur-ing such times, identify thestocks cheaper in valuationswith better fundamentals.

Possibly, the best way tocounter stock fluctuations is tobuild a portfolio. Of course, whenopting for stocks, it’s ideal to havethe least correlated ones thatwould generate higher returns(high-alpha) and higher devia-tion (low-beta). One researchputs that 80 per cent of the port-folio value comes from the topfive stocks in a typical portfolioof 30-50 stocks.

The other way is to build a MFportfolio that reflects the needsand matches the risk appetite sothat these fluctuations are lesspronounced and also act as ahedge. Even here, the investorcould use the profit bookingstrategies and re-enter througha systematic transfer plan (STP)to retain the passive nature whileusing the top-up switches for anactive participation.

(The author is co-founder of“Wealocity”, a wealth manage-ment firm and could be reached

at [email protected])

As many as 128 initial public of-ferings garnered $5.24 billion

this year until August and goingforward the IPO momentum isexpected to improve in the com-ing months, says an EY report.

According to the India IPOMarket Insight report by EY, theIPO activity in the third quarterthis year registered a significantdecline vis-a-vis the correspon-ding period last year.

Only three IPOs werelaunched on BSE and NSE inthe third quarter of 2018 versus11 public offerings in the samequarter of 2017. A similar trendwas witnessed in the SME seg-ment too. There were 19 IPOsin the third quarter (Q3) of 2018versus 49 IPOs in Q3 2017, rep-resenting a significant drop of61 per cent. "With an ongoing

volatility in equity marketsalong with the rising risk oftrade-wars across differentmarkets, it is becoming difficultfor companies to raise equitycapital," said Sandip KhetanPartner and National Leader Fi-nancial Accounting AdvisoryServices (FAAS), EY India.

Khetan said "companies thatwere looking to tap market inthe near term should startproactively looking for alterna-tive sources of capital as well".The report further cited a num-ber of macro-economic factorswhich are contributing uncer-tainties such as, currencyvolatilities (depreciation of ru-pee), higher inflation in the USwhich may compel centralbanks to tighten monetary poli-cies (increase in interest rates),

resulting in withdrawal of in-vestments from emerging mar-kets, back to the US.

Going forward, the IPO ac-tivity is expected to remainbusy for the rest of the year, asthere is a strong pipeline ofDraft Red Herring Prospectus(DRHP) filed with the Securi-ties and Exchange Board of In-dia (SEBI). "On the account ofnext year's general elections,companies are expected to ad-vance their IPOs in the lastquarter of 2018," the reportnoted. Sectorwise, manufac-turing sector (Metals & Miningand Chemicals) is the most ac-tive sector in terms of thenumber of IPOs, whereas fi-nancial sector is at the top interms of issue proceeds, the re-port said

128 IPOs raise $5.24 bn till Aug

IN SHORT

Understanding the commodity trading

Mutual funds best option to counter market volatility

There are two commodity exchanges in India – Multi Commodityexchange (MCX) and National Commodity and Derivative Exchange

(NCDEX). MCX is particularly popular for the metals and energycommodities. Gold is very actively traded contract on it

The best way to counterstock fluctuations is to build a portfolio.

When opting forstocks, it’s ideal to have the least

correlated ones thatwould generate higherreturns (high-alpha)

and higher deviation (low-beta)

Nifty may consolidate between 10,200 to 10750EY report says momentum is likely to improve in coming months

Over 65 lakh foliosadded to MFGrowing investor interest in

mutual funds has led to anaddition of over 65 lakh new fo-lios in the first six months of thecurrent fiscal, taking the totalto an all-time high of 7.78 croreat the end of September.

This follows an addition of1.6 crore investor accounts in2017-18 fiscal, over 67 lakh fo-lios in 2016-17 and 59 lakh in2015-16 financial year. Foliosare numbers designated to in-dividual investor accounts,though an investor can havemultiple accounts.

According to the data fromAssociation of Mutual Funds inIndia (AMFI) on total investoraccounts with 41 fund activeplayers, the number of foliosrose to a record 7,78,86,596 atthe end of September this year,up from 7,13,47,301 at the endMarch 2018, registering a gainof 65.39 lakh. Over the last fewyears, investor accounts haveincreased following robust con-tribution from retail investors,especially from smaller townsand huge inflows in equityschemes.

Folios in equity and equity-linked saving schemes (ELSS)grew by 56 lakh to 5.91 crore.Besides, folios in balanced cat-egory surged by close to 4 lakhto 63 lakh during the period un-der review. Further, folios in in-come funds rose by 5.2 lakh toover 1.12 crore. “There has beena robust growth in the numberof folios, which now stands at7.75 crore,” Amfi CEO N SVenkatesh said. Overall, mutualfunds have seen an inflow ofover Rs 45,000 crore duringApril-September period of thecurrent fiscal (2018-19), whileequity schemes alone attractedan impressive inflow of Rs60,475 crore.

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DR H C UPADHYAY

Hyderabad: Due to not-so-happy picture of the sharemarkets in India,Europe and USA, de-spite the US dollarremaining steady,big market playersin a surprise move,shifted their prefer-ence to gold. This has resultedin a sudden spurt, though mar-ginal, in the yellow metal.

The international trend wasfairly reflected in the domesticmarket also . Added to this, fes-tival season has already set inwith the buyers mostly rurallandlords thronging to the jew-ellery stores. During the week,standard gold and the orna-mental gold closed at levelshigher by Rs 210 (per 10 gms)

when compared with the lastweek’s closing level. Pure sil-ver, on the other hand, de-clined marginally by Rs.300

(per kg) duringthe same period.Other economicparameters onthe closing daywere as follows: $- Rs 73.56, British

Pound Rs 96.83, Gold $1217.53,Silver $14.55, Brent $80.60,Copper $459.55, Crude Rs5,243, MCX gold Rs 31,846,MCX Silver Rs 38,918, Sensex34,733.58 points, and Nifty10,472.50.

On Saturday, standard gold(24 carats) closed at Rs 32,660(per 10 gms) vis-a-vis lastweek’s closing level ofRs.32,450. Ornamental goldtoo, followed suit and was

BUSINESS/SPORTS6HYDERABAD MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 2018

EGG RATES (`/100)HYDERABAD 346V’WADA 366W. GODAVARI 366E. GODAVARI 366VIZAG 366WARANGAL 348CHITTOOR 373CHENNAI 380MUMBAI 401NAMAKKAL 360RETAIL PRICE 4.05

TODAY’S QUOTE MARKET OUTLOOK

Quarterly earnings from blue-chips like Infosys and RIL aswell as movement of the rupee and crude oil prices will

dictate the market trend in the holiday-shortened weekahead, say experts. Stock markets would remain closed onThursday for Dussehra.

Q2 results, ` movement to guide equity mkts Expect three more quarters of losses for telecom industry

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LNG, CITY GAS PROJECTS

DRL recalls skininfection creamtubes from USHyderabad: Dr Reddy's Labo-ratories' US arm is recallingover 35,000 tubes of Nysta�nand Triamcinolone Acetonidecream on account of failedstability specifica�ons, USFDAsaid. As per the US healthregulator's Enforcement Re-port, Dr Reddy's Labs Inc isrecalling 35,020 tubes of Nys-ta�n and Triamcinolone Ace-tonide Cream, USP, 1,00,000units/gm and 1 mg/gm fromthe American market. The re-call is on account of "failedstability specifica�ons - anout of specifica�on resultwas observed for the test pa-rameter : composi�on ofNysta�n during stability test-ing," it added.

BIZ BRIEFS

Under the current scenario, I see at least another three plus quarters oflosses. Why? Because personally, I do not think the present tariffs aresustainable for long term health of the industry. The high incidence oflevies have added to the operators' woes.

Total in talks with Adani

New RelianceDigital store atPunjagutta

BUSINESS BUREAU

Hyderabad: Reliance Digital,the consumer electronics chaininaugurated the new Reliancedigital store at Punjagutta, Hy-derabad.

With this store in Pun-jagutta, Reliance Digital nowhas a footprint of 28 stores inHyderabad and 57 stores in AP& Telangana.

Reliance Digital is present inmore than 800 cities with over300 large format Reliance Dig-ital stores & over 1700 My Jiostores across the country. Withthe launch of this new store,Reliance Digital has now ex-panded its reach in Hyderabad.The store was inaugurated byRana Daggubati.

New Delhi: The RBI will not relaxthe October 15 deadline for globalfinancial technology (fintech)companies to comply with its datalocalisation norms in the public in-terest, according to sources.

The central bank in April gavesix months’ time to global paymentcompanies to store transactiondata of Indian customers withinIndia. The RBI's data localisationnorms will kick in from Monday.

However, the US wants to pro-hibit data localisation to ensurefree flow of information acrossborders. "We want to have prohi-bitions on data localisation to en-sure free flow of information, freeflow of data across borders, disci-plines around countries requiringcompanies to give up their sourcecode, permanent ban on taxation

or duties on digital transmissions,”Dennis Shea, Deputy US TradeRepresentative and US Ambassa-dor to the WTO, told a Washingtonaudience on Friday.

According to the sources, globalfintech companies reportedlysought an extension of the October15 deadline but it seems that theRBI is not inclined to relax thenorms. Data localisation requiresdata about residents be collected,processed, and stored inside the

country, often before being trans-ferred internationally, and usuallytransferred only after meeting lo-cal privacy or data protection laws.

Although domestic companieshave welcomed the guidelines,global companies fear increase intheir expenses for creation of localservers. To avoid this rise in cost,global companies in recent meet-ing with the RBI proposed to pro-vide mirror data instead of originaldata to which the central bank didnot agree, the sources said.

Germany gets revenue of 11 bn euros

from 74 Indian cosMumbai: As many as 74 Indian com-panies have generated annual rev-enues of 11 billion euros and em-ployed nearly 23,300 people inGermany, a recent survey said. Ac-cording to a survey titled 'Indian In-vestment in Germany: Update 2018'conducted by EY, Indo GermanChamber of Commerce and CII, fourdominant sectors accounted for al-most 95 per cent of the revenue gen-erated by Indian companies in Ger-many, as well as 89 per cent of the23,300 people employed.

"Out of the total number of morethan 213 Indian subsidiaries operat-ing in Germany, nearly 74 Indiancompanies each with annualturnover of more than 10 million eu-ros generated combined annual rev-enues of around 11 billion euros," thereport said.

During the week, turmeric,ground nut, garlic, ginger,

and cardamom declined inthe range of 4-6 per centwhile sentiment in wheat,rice, jawar, bajra, tamarind,chillies, turmeric, edible oils,copra and sugar remainedstrong. After a gap of threeyears, now the government iscontemplating to permit the

export of raw sugar thanks tothe higher prices in the im-porting countries. Pulses oftuar, moong and urad re-mained at moderately lowlevels. Common vegetablessuch as potatoes, tomatoes,cabbage, cauli flower andleafy ones ruled at slightlyhigher levels so also the NECCeggs in Hyderabad which ap-preciated by Rs 14 and closedat Rs 346 (per 100). At all-In-dia level, on the closing day,Kolkata and Varanasirecorded the highest price ofRs 410 while Warangal, thelowest of Rs 346. (NVS)

COMMODITIES

RBI firm on deadline for data localisation

Gold appreciates, silver prices decline

New Delhi: Housingsales rose by 15 percent to 67,175 units inseven major citiesduring July-Septem-ber, with the propertymarket recoveringfrom the triplewhammy of demonetisation, GSTand new realty law RERA, accord-ing to ANAROCK.

The cumulative sales duringJanuary-September 2018 in-creased by 8 per cent to 1,78,400units in seven cities -- Delhi-NCR,Mumbai Metropolitan Region(MMR), Chennai, Kolkata, Ben-galuru, Hyderabad and Pune.

ANAROCK Property Consult-ants Chairman Anuj Puri attrib-uted the rise in residential sales tooverall favourable macroeco-nomic environment over the last

one year. "Addi-tionally, theteething issues ofnew policies in-cluding RERA andGST have finallysubsided in 2018,leading to positive

consumer sentiments," he added. Housing sales got a�ected last

year on the adverse impact of notesban as well as implementation is-sues with the new realty law RERAthat came into e�ect from May2017 and the GST. Puri expectscommercial real estate to remainbuoyant in 2019 that in turn wouldhave a positive impact on residen-tial real estate as well. Accordingto the data, housing sales in NCRwent up by 6 per cent to 11,350units during July-September 2018from 10,675 in the year-ago period.

Housing sales up by 15% The US wants to

prohibit data localisa�onto ensure free

flow of informa�onacross borders

French energy giant Total SA is in talksto buy up to half of Adani Group's

stake in LNG projects in Gujarat andOdisha, an under-construction LPG importfacility and in its city gas projects.

quoted in the range of Rs 30,140 –30,240 on the closing day. Silver(0.999) moved in the opposite di-

rection and closed at Rs 38,900(per kg) against the previousweek’s closing mark of Rs 39,200.

Unlikely to hikerates in FY19Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India(RBI) is not expected to hike keylending rates in the current fiscal, anSBI Ecowrap report said on Saturday."CPI inflation marginally increasedto 3.77 per cent in September 2018.Interestingly, on a m-o-m basis, ruralfood inflation has registered a de-cline, even as headline registered anincrease," the report said. "Mean-while, core CPI inflation declined to5.81 per cent in September 2018from 5.92 per cent in August 2018.We expect CPI for FY19 at 4.2 percent. Our inflation trajectory projec-tion makes us believe that rate hikeis now off the table in FY19."

Hyderabad (PTI): India captain Virat Kohlihas no issues with the team's bowlers butwants his batsmen to replicate their homeform when they travel to Australia next month.

While the bowlers have done the job for In-dia, both home and away of late, batsmen havelet the team down time and again. After ham-mering the West Indies 2-0 in the short-Testseries, Kohli said the batsmen must keep de-livering to compliment the good work of thebowlers. "I'm really happy to see these guys fitand hungry. It's up to the batsmen to do therest of the job. I think this game was tougherfor the batsmen.

This first innings was more challenging thanthe last one (in Rajkot)," said Kohli at the post-match presentation. Compared to Rajkot, thebatsmen had it tougher against the West Indiespace attack comprising Jason Holder andShanon Gabriel.

Both the Test matches finished within threedays.

India were put under a little bit of pressurein their first innings before Rishabh Pant andAjinkya Rahane steadied the ship with a 152-run partnership. "Jinx has been batting reallywell, he got runs in Nottingham and we wonthe Test. He wanted runs under the belt. Hispartnership with Pant is something we wantto see more of," said Kohli.

He was also all praise for Umesh Yadav,who became only the third Indian pacer totake 10 wickets in a Test at home. Ahead ofthe Australia series, he has given a selectionheadache to the team. "If you look at thethree new guys (Vihari in England, Shaw andPant) who've come in, they've grabbed theiropportunities. I think all these things are abig positive. But from this Test I want to sin-gle out Umesh.

"Shardul broke down and to take ten wick-ets is great. It was an outstanding perform-ance. We're all happy for him. I think it's agreat luxury to have (several seamers). Wehave a headache to choose out of so manygood quality bowlers. That's a better positionto be in than looking for bowlers," added theskipper.

West Indies captain Jason Holder, whoplayed his first game of the series, said the or-dinary batting led to another defeat on daythree of the game. "A little disappointed withthe way we batted in the second innings. Ithought we fought our way back in the gameafter the fightback yesterday we tried to pushforward today. But credit to India, they played

commendably and did the basics better thanus. Asked if an extra seamer would have madethe di�erence, he said: "In hindsight a lot ofseamers got wickets, Umesh got ten wickets, Igot a fifer and maybe Shannon got a few wick-ets as well and an extra seamer would havehelped. "It didn't spin as much as we'd ex-pected it to. We need to apply ourselves more,need to give ourselves a better chance withthe bat - bat deep after getting set in." But itwas a good game for the skipper who scored ahalf century and picked up a five-wicket haul.

"Personally I am in a good head space at themoment; I am playing good cricket and tryworking hard on my game while playingthrough aches and pains. I love playing Testcricket and it is my favourite format," added Holder

JUST A THREE-DAY AFFAIR

Replicate home form in Australia: Kohli

Indian bowler Umesh Yadav reacts a�er dismissing thelast West Indies batsman Hannon Gabriel on Day 3 ofthe second cricket test match, in Hyderabad on Sunday.

SCOREBOARDWest Indies (1st Innings): 311 India (1st Innings): 367 West Indies (2nd Innings): Kraigg Brathwaite cPant b Umesh Yadav 0 Kieran Powell c A Rahaneb R Ashwin 0 Shai Hope c A Rahane b RavindraJadeja 28 Shimron Hetmyer c Pujara b KuldeepYadav 17 Sunil Ambris lbw R Jadeja 38 RostonChase b Umesh Yadav 6 Shane Dowrich b UmeshYadav 0 Jason Holder c Pant b R Jadeja 19 Deven-dra Bishoo not out 10 Jomel Warrican b R Ashwin7 Shanon Gabriel Umesh Yadav 1 Extras: (LB-1) 1 Total: (all out in in 46.1 overs) 127 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-6, 3-45, 4-45, 5-68, 6-70 Bowling: Umesh Yadav 12.1-3-45-4, RavichandranAshwin 10-4-24-2, Kuldeep Yadav 13-1-45-1,Ravindra Jadeja 11-5-12-3.

Hyderabad (PTI): India coachRavi Shastri saw in PrithviShaw's batting, glimpses of twoof the greatest batsmen of mod-ern era and a non-conformistwho redefined batsmanship.

An overwhelmed Shastri onSunday, in one breath, men-tioned the names of three leg-ends -- Sachin Tendulkar, BrianLara and Virender Sehwag --while trying to describe the 18-year-old Shaw who accumu-lated big runs in his first brushwith top-flight internationalcricket.

"He (Shaw) is born to playcricket. He's been playing sincethe age of eight in the maidansof Mumbai. You can see all thathardwork showing. He's a spec-tator's delight. There's a bit ofSachin there, a bit of Viru in himand when he walks - there's a bitof Lara as well," Shastri said. "Ifhe can keep his head on hisshoulders and keep the workethic, he has a bright future."

Opener Shaw flayed theCaribbean attack during his 52-ball-70 on the second day of thesecond Test to give India a fly-ing start, days after hitting acentury on debut. Shastri laudedthe efforts of Umesh Yadav, whoreturned a match haul of 10wickets to become only the thirdIndian pacer to achieve the featafter Kapil Dev and Javagal Sri-nath.

"It can be a frustrating profes-sion when you sit on the benchlike Umesh for 4 Tests. Only 11can play. He got his opportunityhere and I'm very happy for him.It's been done only four times(ten-for for a pacer in India)."What this will do is make himbelieve that he belongs. He cansay now that he wants his place.That's given us a headache.

He was on target," Shastri saidof the pacer. The coach was alsofulsome in his praise for 20-year-old wicketkeeper-batsmanRishabh Pant, while backing KL Rahul to regain his touch. "Ithink (Rahul) will be fine. He'sa world-class player. Sometimeshe tries too hard.

He works really hard on hisgame. "Pant is another name. He

got his opportunity, he grabbedit, now he has consolidated it.About Wriddhiman Saha re-turning and challenging Pant,he said, "You've got to go on cur-rent form." Last but not theleast, on the triumph, Shastrisaid, "Lot of positives for us.When we are playing at homeit's easy to get complacent andcarried away."

"When you lose one fastbowler (Shardul Thakur wentoff in the first morning), youhave another one who stands upand takes 10 wickets." Shaw (18years and 339 days) meanwhilebecame the second youngest tohit the winning runs in a Testafter Pat Cummins (18 yearsand 198 days) against SouthAfrica in Johannesburg in 2011.

Shaw a mixture of Tendulkar, Sehwag and Lara: Shastri

New Delhi (PTI): Old warhorse Leander Paes is still going greatguns as the veteran tennis star won his second Challenger level titleof the season, lifting the Santo Domingo Open trophy with partnerMiguel Angel Reyyes-Varela.

The second seeded Indo-Mexican pair, playing its second consec-utive final, came from behind to beat Ariel Behar and Roberto Quiroz4-6, 6-3, 10-5 in the summit clash, which lasted one hour and 26 min-utes. Paes, who is ranked 69, added 110 ranking points to his kittyand shared a prize purse of USD 7750 with his partner. Last week,the 45-year-old Paes and Angel ended runners-up at Montrrey Chal-lenger to Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Marcelo Arevalo.

Paes also ended runner-up at Chicago, Dallas on the ATP Chal-lenger circuit and won the Newport Beach event in January. Apartfrom these, Paes also reached the final of Winston-Salem Open andDubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on the ATP World Tour,ending runner-up with Jamie Cerretani in both the tournaments.

PAES WINS SECOND TITLE OF 2018 SEASON London: Argentina great Diego

Maradona has hit out at hiscountryman Lionel Messi,saying the forward is not aleader on the pitch and shouldnot be considered a foot-balling God. Maradona, whoalong with Brazil's Pele is widelyheld to be one of the best players ofall time, said Messi was one player athis club Barcelona and another withthe national side. "We shouldn't deifyMessi any longer," Maradona said in aninterview with Fox Sports. "He's Messiwhen he plays for Barcelona. Messi isMessi when he wears that shirt and he'sanother Messi with Argentina."

"He's a great player but he's not aleader. It's useless trying to make a

leader out of aman who goes tothe toilet 20times before agame."

The referencewas believed tobe in connectionwith Messi's ex-

treme nerves before games that haveseen him vomit ahead of some impor-tant matches. Messi, 31, has claimedevery possible honour with Barcelonaand has won the FIFA World Player ofthe Year award five times.

But he has struggled to reproducethe same scintillating form when wear-ing the blue and white shirt of Ar-gentina.

Messi not a leader: MaradonaBuenos Aires (PTI) The Indianmen's and women's teams ad-vanced to the final of hockey 5scompetition in the Youth Olympicsafter registering emphatic winsover their respective opponentshere. India defeated hosts Ar-gentina 3-1 in the men's semifinalmatch while the women's team beatChina 3-0 in their last-four match.The Indian men face Malaysia inthe summit clash while theirwomen counterparts take on hostsArgentina in the final. This is thefirst time India is taking part in ahockey competition in the YouthOlympics.

Indian men, womenteams enter hockey 5sfinal of Youth Olympics

Swimmers await the start of the race at the Ironman WorldChampionship Triathlon in Kailua Kona, Hawaii on Saturday.

Once upon a time, there was a lazywolf living in a jungle. Near his

house was a pond. Many animalscame to the pond to drink water. Thewolf was always in search of food.

One day, he was sitting near thepond hoping to get something to eat.When suddenly he spotted a dead bull.“Aha! What a luck! Now I can eat all Iwant," he thought and his mouthstrated watering.

He began to eat the bull. A thoughtstruck him, “if another beast comesthis way he will ask for a share. I hadbetter eat fast." ‘Grub! Grub! Grub!Grub1’ he chewed, faster and faster.

In his haste, a piece of bone gotstuck in his throat. “Ohh! Errk!" criedthe wolf. He tried to bring it out of hismouth. He tried to cough it out but invain. Next, he tried to swallow it downbut he failed.

“Ooh, the bone in throat hurts. Whatshall I do now?" thought the wolf. Sud-denly he remembered that a cranelived on the nearby riverbank. The wolfwent to the crane and pleaded, “Mydear Crane! I have got a bone stuck inmy throat. I will give you a present, ifyou pull it out of my throat with yourlong beak."

The crane took pity on the wolf. He

asked the wolf to look up with hismouth open. The crane then put itshead into the wolf’s mouth and pulledout the bone. “Oh! What a relief!" thewolf sighed. “Now where is my pres-ent?" asked the crane.

“What present?" the wolf replied,pretending not aware of its promise.“You said that you would give me apresent if I remove the bone from yourthroat," said the crane humbly.

“Hah! Is it not a present that you putyour head into my mouth and got outalive? I could have easily crushed yourhead while your beak was inside mymouth," said the ungrateful wolf andwent away. The crane felt helpless anddecided not to help any ungratefulcreature in the future.

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Hyderabad: The World MemorySports Council for India organ-ized the 9th Indian NationalMemory Championship (INMC)2018, on Sunday at HotelManohar. The Championshipwas declared Open by Dr FrancisXavier, Father of Memory in In-dia and Guru who trained SqdLdr Jayasimha in Memory, bylighting the lamp. World MemorySports Council has taken the ini-tiative to organize MemorySports across the Globe and theNational Memory Council for In-dia under the aegis of WorldMemory Sports Council organ-ised the Indian National OpenMemory Championships - 2018.

The ninth Indian NationalMemory Championship 2018was held under the stewardshipof Sqd Ldr Jayasimha, President,World Memory Sports Councilfor India and multiple Guinnessworld record holders. Interna-tional observer Phil Chambers,the chief arbiter, World MemorySports Council and Indian ob-servers JSP Raj and Pavan Bhat-tad supervised and monitoredthe event. Over 250 memory ath-letes from various states of Indiatook part in the championship.The top 50 winners at this Cham-pionship will gain eligibility torepresent India at the WorldMemory Championship to beheld at Hong Kong from Decem-ber 20-22.

The Championship was organ-ised in the categories of Kids (12years & below); juniors (13 to 17years); Adults (18 to 59 years) and2 participants in seniors (60years & above). The participantswere tested in the 10 memorydisciplines of Memorising Namesand Faces, Memorising BinaryNumbers, Memorising RandomNumbers, Memorising AbstractImages, Memorising SpeedNumbers, Memorising Historic /Future Dates, Memorising Ran-

dom Playing Cards, MemorisingRandom Words, MemorisingSpoken Numbers and Memoris-ing Speed Cards. There are marksallotted for each discipline andthe Memory Athlete with thehighest overall score in these 10disciplines is declared as the win-ner.

The winner was awarded thetitle, “The Indian National Mem-ory Champion 2018”, a trophy,certificate and a Prize Money ofRs 3,00,000/-; the First Runnerup was presented a trophy, cer-tificate and prize money of Rs2,00,000/- and the Second run-ner up took away a trophy, cer-tificate and a prize money of Rs1,00,000/-. In each category thetopper bagged Rs 50,000/-; FirstRunner-up Rs 30,000 and SecondRunner-up Rs 20,000/-.

Speaking about the event SqdLdr Jayasimha said, this is theninth year of the Championship,which is gaining popularity yearon year. We have popular sportsevents and competitions for bodyand physical fitness, but therewas no such competition forbrain. This is as essential or evenmore than the body fitness. Tokeep our brain fit and sharp, we

need to jog the brain, constantlychallenge it; this competitionaims to work towards that. If thebrain is sharp, we can achievemuch more, bring in innovations,resolve issues, find answers andmake the world much betterplace to live. Our objective is toensure that an Indian becomes aWorld Memory Champion by2020. He desired governmenttaking initiative to introduce asubject on Memory and makingit a part of the curriculum.

Rajender Reddy, Chairman,Gandhi Global Family, GandhiGyan Prathishtan, was the chiefguest at the Awards Ceremonyheld in the evening and gave awaythe Awards and prize money tothe winners. MotivationalSpeaker, Radha Krishna; Film ac-tor and HR Trainer, Pradeep andBalalatha, Civil services coach,were present on the occasion.

Why Memory Sports?There are world championships

for virtually every physical sportlike Swimming, Boxing, Foot Ball,Cricket, Hockey and Athletics andso on and on and on… Yet therewas no world championship forthat most important cognitive

function of all, and without whichnone of the others could exist –MEMORY! World Memory SportsCouncil had taken up the initiativeto organize Memory Sports acrossthe Globe. In this direction, Na-tional Memory Council for Indiaunder the aegis of World MemorySports Council has organised theIndian National Open MemoryChampionships – 2018. Aim

The aim of the National Mem-ory Council of India is to showcasethe Indian Brain Power to thewhole World and ultimately pro-duce a World Memory Championfrom India. Squadron LeaderJayasimha, Multiple GuinnessWorld Record Holder and thePresident of World MemorySports Council had been workingtowards promoting the MemorySports in India. He had trained nu-merous students, adults, profes-sionals and trainers in the field ofMemory. His goal is to organizeWorld Memory Championships inIndia in 2020. Learning thesememory techniques and practic-ing them not only will help keepthe brains sharper but also helpthem to apply these techniques inacademics and day to day life.

Hyderabad hosts ‘INMC’-2018

Phil Chambers, Chief Arbiter, World Memory Sports Council ligh�ng the lamp to mark the inaugura�on of the ninth IndianNa�onal Memory Championship 2018 in Hyderabad on Sunday

OUR BUREAU

Hyderabad: The third edition ofConfluence, an initiative by Tal-entSprint bringing Academia andIndustry to collaborate and getready for the future was held inHyderabad on Saturday. Themed“Extreme Automation: Get Readyfor the New Normal”, the eventwas attended by senior manage-ment representatives of collegesfrom across the country and cov-ered various aspects of deep tech-nologies driving automation andsteps colleges can take to stayahead of the curve and align them-selves with future requirementsof the Industry.

Industry experts from Pegasys-tems, BigBasket, Automation Any-where, Virtusa, HCL and TCS andrepresentatives of colleges sharedtheir thoughts and discussed onthe way forward for colleges to gettheir students ready for the jobsof the future. TalentSprintlaunched its new programme,AIML Programme for colleges, onthe occasion.

TalentSprint announced thelaunch of a programme on Artifi-cial Intelligence (AI) and MachineLearning (ML) Programme forcollege students. Aimed at en-abling engineering college stu-dents to be able to develop appli-cations using AI/ML and equipthem start their career in thisdeep-tech area, this programmewill be an delivered in a hybrid for-mat at college campuses. This isthe third such deep-tech pro-gramme by TalentSprint for col-leges after Women in SoftwareEngineering (WISE) and PegaUniversity Academic Programme(Pega UAP).

On the occasion Dr SantanuPaul, MD and CEO, TalentSprintsaid “In an era of extreme automa-

tion, expertise premium is in-creasing and experience premiumis coming down. Fresh graduateswith expertise are competing withexperienced tech professionalsand are commanding premiumsalaries. We enable young profes-sionals build such expertisethrough our deep-tech programsand get ready for the jobs of thefuture. He said 51 institutionsfrom di�erent parts of the countryare taking part in this seminar.”

Hari T N, Head HR, BigBasket,delivering the keynote addresssaid, India is two India's, India oneis privileged India, well o�, havingenough to make two ends meetand has access to English mediumeducation, the second India re-ferred to as Bharath is underpriv-ileged, struggling, where childrenare the source of getting moneyfor the family rather than enjoy-ing childhood, these two Indianever seem to meet, the first In-dia never knows what are theproblems of the second India, are.We always thought those prob-lems will somehow go away, theGovernment will solve them, but

we will have nothing to do withthem because they don't impactus.

India's education system needsto be completely transformed,which is not easy. Education ismost relevant if it is imparted justbefore you need it, that's whenyou begin to apply. Are you ableto adapt to new technology, areyou able to adapt to new ways ofworking, new management prac-tices, those are the things that arebecoming important. So thosewho learn new things, pick upnew things are the ones who willsucceed.

Today the rate of change orscale is amazing. Technologicaldevelopments could be classifiedinto two, all those things youcouldn't do earlier could use tech-nology and do, like some medicalprocedures done with technology,we couldn't do earlier due to beinginaccessible are risky, this kind oftechnology will never kill jobs,they will create new jobs. Secondkind is all about bots, automationfor repeatable tasks, will to someextent take away jobs.

Confluence 2018 focuseson technology for future

Aligarh (PTI): Kashmiri studentsstudying at the Aligarh MuslimUniversity (AMU) have threat-ened to leave for their homes onOctober 17, if the seditioncharges against three of them arenot dropped. In a letter to AMUvice-chancellor, AMU students’union former vice-president Saj-jad Rathar said, "If this vilifica-tion does not stop, more than1,200 Kashmiri students willleave for their homes in theKashmir Valley on October 17 asa last option." Terming the slap-ping of sedition charges as"vendetta", Rathar said, "The op-tion of holding Namaaz-e-Janaza(prayer meeting) in absentia wasdropped after the AMU authori-ties did not give the permission."

"If no prayer meeting was heldas confirmed by all o�cial agen-cies, the slapping a case of sedi-

tion against three Kashmiri stu-dents is simply a vendetta, ha-rassment and denial of justice,"he said. The letter was handedover to AMU Proctor MohsinKhan in presence of large num-ber of Kashmiri students at hiso�ce on Saturday night. AMUspokesman Shafay Kidwai, how-ever, denied the Kashmiri stu-dents' charges of harassment andstressed that "no innocent wouldbe framed". Prof Kidwai alsomade it clear that "there is zerotolerance for any anti-nationalactivity on AMU campus". ThreeKashmiri students of AMU werebooked on sedition charges forallegedly for raising "anti-India"slogans and trying to hold aprayer meeting for Hizbul Mu-jahideen commander MananBashir Wani on October 12 (Fri-day). Twenty seven-year-old

Wani, pursing a PhD course inAllied Geology at the AMU, hadquit the university and joinedmilitant ranks in January thisyear.

He was killed in an encounterat Shatgund village in Handwaraarea of north Kashmir's Kup-wara district on Thursday. Ali-garh's Senior Superintendent ofPolice Ajai Sahni said police tookthe action (on October 12) aftera video surfaced, showing thethree Kashmiri students raising"anti-India" slogans. "Policehave filed an FIR against WasimMalik, Abdul Mir and one un-named person. They have beenidentified on the basis of a videorecording," he said. Prof Kidwaisaid show cause notices havebeen issued to nine students fortrying to hold an unauthorisedgathering Thursday. "A three-member inquiry committee hasbeen set up to probe the inci-dent. It will submit a report inthe next 72 hours," he said. Thethree students were suspendedfrom the AMU earlier. SomeAMU students from Kashmirhad on Thursday (October 11)gathered near Kennedy Hall onthe campus to hold funeralprayers for Wani, followingwhich the varsity sta� and thestudents union leaders hadrushed to the spot and tried tostop them.

AMU's Kashmiri studentsthreaten to leave for home

More than 1,200 Kashmiri students will leave for their homesin the Kashmir Valley on October 17 as a last option

(L-R) Giridharan, Director, College Rela�ons, Talentsprit Jitendra singh, CTO,Talentsprit Roma Singh, Chitkara University, Chandigarh Sridhar Business Officer,Talentsprit Phanindra Sama, CIO, Govt of Telangana and Co-Founder, RedBus andHari T N, Head HR BigBasket releasing the brochure of the new programmelaunched by Talentsprit - AIML programme for colleges, at the seminar

Jammu (PTI): Khurshid AhmadGanai, advisor to Jammu andKashmir governor, has urgedpolicymakers to put more ef-forts to linking education withemployment and entrepreneur-ship to ensure more job oppor-tunities to skilled youth in thecountry. "There is a need to im-prove policies which can give fil-lip to skill development pro-grammes at colleges, schools,skill centres to produce skilledpopulation for our nation.

"The policymakers shouldput more e�orts into linking ed-ucation with employment andentrepreneurship through skilldevelopment to ensure that ourskilled youth can get jobs,"Ganai said, addressing studentsat the valedictory function of atwo-day “skill development artand craft mela” in Jammu. Hesaid in the age of globalisation,skill building is important toboost e�ciency and quality ofservices for economic growth.Skills and knowledge are thedriving forces of economic

growth and social developmentfor any country, he said. Heurged the youth to take advan-tage of the resources andschemes launched by the gov-ernment to accelerate economicgrowth, and said they need toexplore opportunities in tradi-tional skills and new-age tech-nologies as both are relevantand capable of generating sus-tainable livelihood.

"It is the endeavour of gover-nor's administration to provideaccess to quality skill training atthe local levels through shortterm courses as well as longterm training," the advisor said.He said e�orts at rectifying theimbalance in the education sys-tem through empowering po-tential of skilling, finds a deepconnect with Gandhian princi-ples of craft-centred education."Craft-centred education cre-ates a balance between theoryand monotonous learningthrough creative stimulationand self-expression," the advisormaintained.

Link education withemployment: JK Governor

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NASA scientists are yet tohear from the Mars Op-

portunity Rover, which hasbeen silent since a global duststorm enshrouded the redplanet. According to the USspace agency, it is possiblethat a layer of dust depositedon the rover's solar panels bythe dust storm is blockingsunlight that could rechargeits batteries. No one can telljust how much dust has beendeposited on its panels, NASAsaid in a statement.

The agency's Jet Propul-sion Laboratory is employinga combination of listeningand commanding methods incase Opportunity is still oper-ational. A windy period onMars -- known to Opportu-nity's team as "dust-clearing

season" -- occurs in the No-vember-to-January timeframe and has helped cleanthe rover's panels in the past.The team remains hopefulthat some dust clearing mayresult in hearing from therover in this period.

Opportunity has exceededits expected lifespan manytimes over. Both Opportunityand its twin, Spirit, were de-signed to last only 90 days onthe Martian surface, with theexpectation that the planet'sextreme winters and duststorms could cut their mis-sion short. The rover haslasted nearly 15 years. It lastcommunicated on June 10 be-fore being forced into hiber-nation by the growing duststorm.

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A K MISHRA

Civil Services Mains Exam 2018 isless than a month away now, andcandidates preparing for the stage

must be feeling the stress, anxiety and thepressure of this 2nd stage of most com-petitive examination. This nearly about20 days’ time left for Mains Exam seemsfoggy with a lot to study and not enoughtime to finish it all. Managing time andovercoming the ‘eleventh-hour panic’ be-comes a difficult task for the aspirants atthis stage. And therefore, to help aspi-rants take a breath of ease, we, with oursubject experts under the guidance ofSuccess Guru AK Mishra have devisedthese important last minutes tips that willhelp aspirants make most of these last fewdays left for CSE Mains Exam 2018.

Here are some amazing tips that will

help you crack the UPSCMains:i Avoid reading new ma-terial like bulky books andnotes that you have nottouched in your course ofpreparation, except currentaffairs. Focus on revisingfrom your pre-preparednotes for all static part, butstay abreast with everydaycurrent affairs and connectit with the topics given inthe syllabus and the topics

which you have studied which cover-ing the static part of GS syllabus.You’ll get the better hold on topics thisway.

i Take Mains Test Series, as this willmake you exam ready, give you a fairidea of probable questions, enhanceyour answer writing practice and willboost up your confidence.

i Revise mind maps so that you retainimportant points that will help youwrite factual and a well-framed an-swer.

i Make sure you have reviewed all theimportant topics, facts, figures, con-cepts and current affairs during yourlast minute preparation. Devote de-cent time for this for revision. Stickto whatever you have studied.

i Practice writing answers to check yourspeed and clarity. Many times while

writing we recall numerous impor-tant pointswhich have been studiedearlier, so it will be an added benefitof the last minute preparations.

i Keep with yourself a list of relevantquotes from famous personalities likeMK GANDHI, NEHRU, AZAAD, M LKING, N MANDELA etc. These willhelp you frame impressive answers inessay writing and ethics papers.

i Visit government websites to keep atrack of recently launched schemes,plans and initiatives the governing au-thorities are planning upon or work-ing on.

i An optimistic approach is pivotal tosuccess in mains. Keep yourself mo-tivated. Read things that make youfeel confident, talk to people whomake you feel good and give time tothings that keep you happy. This willkeep you pepped up and high on spir-its.

iDiscuss the current issues and impor-tant topics with peer group, seniorsand other common people, as it willbroaden your perspective over the is-sues, it will help you understand theviews and opinions of common public,which is extremely important, as youwill be working very closely with thecommon public when you will becomean administrator. And therefore, asense of understanding of their views,empathy along with smart decision

making skills must be seen in yourpersonality.

iRelax and keep time for a proper 7-hoursleep. This will not just help your brainwork optimally but also keep you freshwhile you study. Also if you have ahabit of studying at night and sleepinglater during the day, change it as earlyas possible, as a proper biological clockis essential to keep you fresh and pre-pare for writing the examination.

i Eat Well! Take nutritious food whichwill keep your brain stay healthy andwrite better during the examination.It will also help you stay fit and notfall into seasonal sickness or otherhealth issues.

i Brisk walks and proper morning walkroutines will help you become moreproductive and stay focused in yourexaminations.

i Talk to your friends who are alsopreparing for the exam, discuss withthem the concepts but always try tofollow your own strategy because youknow very well your weaknesses andyour strong points. If confident, thelast few days of preparation proved tobe the best time for overcoming yourweaknesses and strengthening yourstrong points.

i Avoid cramming and revise. Revisionis the best way to write the examswell. Also, keep your focus on the op-tional subject as it decides your futurerank.

i Don’t make last moment changes instrategies, plans or other study tech-niques. Sudden hustle-bustle tends toconfuse students often.

For now, Believe in yourself! It is ex-tremely important to trust in your hardwork and dedication. Everything is setright if the attitude is right. So go aheadand give it your best shot. You will makeit! Wishing all the aspirants the very bestfor the Mains.

NASA's Opportunity MarsRover remains silent

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“IT ALWAYSSEEMSIMPOSSIBLEUNTIL IT ISDONE”- NELSONMANDELA

Liars may be harder to spot than thoughtLondon (PTI): It may not be aseasy to spot liars as thought, ac-cording to a study which hasfound that verbal and physicalsigns of lying are harder to detectthan people believe. Tests revealthat people are skilled at identi-fying commonly displayed cues -- such as hesitations and handgestures -- but these signs areproduced more often whensomeone is telling the truth.Liars are also skilled at suppress-ing these signals to avoid detec-tion, researchers found.

Psychologists used an interac-tive game to assess the types ofspeech and gestures speakersproduce when lying, and whichclues listeners interpret as evi-dence that a statement is false.Jia Loy, from the University ofEdinburgh in the UK, created acomputerised two-player gamein which 24 pairs of playershunted for treasure. Playerswere free to lie at will. Re-searchers coded more than 1,100utterances produced by speakersagainst 19 potential cues to lying-- such as pauses in speech,changes in speech rate, andshifts in eye gaze and eyebrow

movements. The cues wereanalysed to see which ones lis-teners identified, and which cueswere more likely to be producedwhen telling an untruth. Theteam found listeners were e�-cient at identifying these com-mon signs.

Listeners make judgements onwhether something is true withina few hundred milliseconds ofencountering a cue. However,they found that the commoncues associated with lying weremore likely to be used if the

speaker is telling the truth. Thestudy helps understand the psy-chological dynamics that shapedeception, researchers said. "Thefindings suggest that we havestrong preconceptions about thebehaviour associated with lying,which we act on almost instinc-tively when listening to others,"said Martin Corley, of the Uni-versity of Edinburgh. "However,we don't necessarily producethese cues when we're lying, per-haps because we try to suppressthem," Corley said.

World’s fastestcamera can seelight in slow motion

Washington (PTI): Scientistshave developed what may be theworld's fastest camera, which cancapture 10 trillion frames per sec-ond -- making it possible to'freeze time' to see light in ex-tremely slow motion. The ad-vance may o�er insight into as-

yet undetectable secrets of theinteractions between light andmatter, according to scientistsfrom California Institute of Tech-nology in the US. In recent years,the junction between innova-tions in non-linear optics and im-aging has opened the door for

new and highly e�cient methodsfor microscopic analysis of dy-namic phenomena in biology andphysics.

However, harnessing the po-tential of these methods requiresa way to record images in realtime at a very short temporal res-olution -- in a single exposure.Using current imaging tech-niques, measurements takenwith ultrashort laser pulses mustbe repeated many times, which isappropriate for some types of in-ert samples, but impossible forother more fragile ones. For ex-ample, laser-engraved glass cantolerate only a single laser pulse,leaving less than a picosecond tocapture the results. In such acase, the imaging technique mustbe able to capture the entireprocess in real time. Compressedultrafast photography (CUP) wasa good starting point. At 100 bil-

lion frames per second, thismethod approached, but did notmeet, the specifications requiredto integrate femtosecond lasers.

To improve on the concept,the new T-CUP system was de-veloped based on a femtosecondstreak camera that also incorpo-rates a data acquisition type usedin applications such as tomogra-phy. "We knew that by using onlya femtosecond streak camera, theimage quality would be limited,"said Lihong Wang, Director ofCaltech Optical Imaging Labora-tory (COIL). "So to improve this,we added another camera thatacquires a static image. Com-bined with the image acquired bythe femtosecond streak camera,we can use what is called a Radontransformation to obtain high-quality images while recordingten trillion frames per second,"said Wang.

SHREEPRAKASH SHARMA

Never before in the world historythere descended a legendary

person who with his exemplaryhumble nature and the rarest down-to-earth approach to the people,posts and privileges, which saw himat the helm of affairs of the democ-racy of the country and erudition ofhis time, earned for himself the lau-rels and won the hearts of the peo-ple across the countries and who isso popularly called as Dr Avul PakirJainulabdeen Abdul Kalam.

The great scientist and 11th Pres-ident of India, Dr Kalam was bornon October 15, 1931 in a very poorTamil Muslim family to a boatowner father in Ramanathapuramdistrict of Tamil Nadu, Dr Kalam’schildhood was a saga of abjectpoverty and predicaments. His lifewas a big ordeal of sufferings andsacrifices.

Kalam, the youngest of his fivesiblings, faced numerous difficultiesof life due to bad economic condi-tion of his family. His father earnedvery meagre income from his boatbusiness of ferrying Hindu pilgrimsbetween Rameswaram toDhanushkodi.

And that is why the child Kalamhad to sell newspapers in his homepilgrimage town of Rameswarma tosupplement and support the incomeof his family.

Unlike general perceptions, DrKalam was not a very talented stu-dent in his childhood but he was soearnestly curious to learn every-thing of the world. He was very

much interested in mathematicswhich he would study hours.

Having finished his graduation inphysics from the University ofMadras and aerospace engineeringfrom the Madras Institute of Tech-nology, Dr Kalam dreamt to becomea fighter pilot. But unfortunately histhis cherished dream to become afighter pilot could not be realized ashe had succeeded to achieve ninthposition for which only eight posi-tions were available in the IndianAir Force.

Having learnt the basic tenets ofleadership and tact of learning fromthe stalwarts like Dr Vikram Sarab-hai, Prof Satish Dhawan and DrBrahm Prakash, Dr Kalam, alsocalled as the Missile Man of India,started his career in Defence Re-search and Development Service. In1969, he got the chance to work inIndian Space Research Organiza-tion as the project director of India’sfirst Satellite Launch Vehicle (SLV-III). With the passage of time Kalamdedicated himself to the develop-ment of a number of missiles suchas Agni and Prithvi.

Working as the Chief ScientificAdvisor to the Prime Minister andSecretary of the Defence Researchand Development Organizationproved to be very epoch-makingevents, especially for the nucleartest of Pokhran-II.

Dr Kalam succeeded K RNarayanan as the 11th President ofthe country in 2002 which he servedtill 2007. He became the first scien-tist to grace the highest office ofPresident in the Republic of India.

Apart from the tantrums and para-phernalia of power and privileges ofthe post he had been the epitome ofutter politeness and the mankind.His immense love for the peopleearned him the ocean of popularityand he was acclaimed as the people’sPresident.

The post-retirement life of thegreatest scientist of his time was fullof hectic activities which he devotedto the teaching of the students of thepremier institutes of the country.He served as the visiting professorat the Indian Institute of Manage-ment Shillong, the Indian Instituteof Management Ahmedabad and theIndian Institute of Management In-dore. He loved teaching which hewas so religiously devoted to. Hetaught information technology tothe students of International Insti-tute of Information Technology Hy-derabad and technology at BanarasHindu University and Anna Univer-sity. Kalam honoured with 7 hon-orary doctorates from 40 universi-ties.

Dr Kalam’s entire life has been anideal example of inspiration and en-lightenment for the generations tocome. Notwithstanding his highestechelons of post and prestige, hissimple life style, kindness, empathicvalues and dedication for the hon-esty and integrity and humble na-ture of dealing with the commonmasses drew them to him withoutany fear and formality.

There goes a very real story, oneof myriad others, of his life. He wasonce invited to grace as the chiefguest at the convocation ceremony

of IIT, Varanasi. Among the fivechairs put for the guests and invi-tees on the stage, Dr Kalam’s chairin the middle was bigger than therest. When Kalam noticed that hischair was bigger in height than restof the guests, he simply refused tosit in and instead told the Vice-chancellor himself to sit. On refusalby vice-chancellor to sit in Kalam’schair, the vice-chancellor placed an-other chair of the same size whichmade the chief guest comfortable.This kind of rare simplicity andhumbleness made Dr Kalam mostadorable among the people of thecountries in the world.

Despite reaching out to the cli-

max of his professional career, helived a very ordinary life till his lastbreath. He was an early riser andwould sleep only at 2 a.m. It is hardto believe that he did not even pos-sess a television and would listen ra-dio only. He kept himself very faraway from the life which was osten-tatious and boastful. He was reli-giously a proud and devout Muslim,raised strictly as per the Islamiccustoms and traditions. He fastidi-ously practised Islam with namazand fasting during Ramadan. Butdespite strict following of Islam andbelief in Koran he learnt Sanskritand read Bhagavad Gita.

Dr Kalam was a prolific writer andauthored many books which are themasterpieces of inspiration, high vi-sion and ambition-to-teach-the-sky,especially for the students. Wings ofFire, Ignited Minds, Mission India,and Indomitable Spirit are some ofthe books which have proved to beamong the best sellers across theworld and game-changer of lives ofmillions of the students as well com-mon masses on the earth planet.

The July 27, 2015 came as the verysad day in the history of the countrywhen Dr Kalam collapsed deliveringa lecture on creating a LiveablePlanet Earth at the Indian Instituteof Management Shillong.

With him not died one of the greatscientists and mentors of the worldbut died an institute, an organiza-tion and a school of research, learn-ing, enlightenment, erudition, hu-man values and mankind.

The vacuum his demise has cre-ated is not easy to replenish in theages to come but his teachings, hisundying curiosity to learn and un-flinching flair for teaching shall al-ways keep on showing the path tothe people in the generations tocome.

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Hyderabad: The Hyderabad edi-tion of the first ever- exclusivewomen’s doubles tournament inthe country, Red Bull Shuttle Upwas held on Sunday at the JSKBadminton Academy, Nizampet.After some quality women dou-bles action, the duo of Aparnaand Maitreyi triumphed overtheir competitors to be crownedthe winners of the Hyderabadedition. The winners will nowmove on to the national finals.

The tournament aims to fur-ther boost and improve partici-pation and popularity amongstaspiring women players. RedBull Shuttle Up Qualifiersstarted in Delhi, Bangalore,Guwahati and Hyderabad withthe final round to take place inMumbai. The winning pair getsan exciting opportunity to playagainst the best badminton dou-bles player in the country Ash-wini Ponnappa and her partner.

Speaking on the occasion, In-dia’s ace women doubles shuttlerand Red Bull athlete AshwiniPonnappa said, “Badminton isgrowing in terms of popularitythrough viewership and receiv-ing interest through participa-tion. It is my ambition to createawareness and promote doublesbadminton in the country asthere is a lot of potential for it.We have many Indian pairs whomade it to the knockout stagesof international tournaments,which are encouraging signs fordoubles badminton. I am grate-ful to Red Bull for coming upwith initiatives like Red BullShuttle Up, which provide aspir-ing women players the opportu-nity to fulfil their dream and alsouplift the standard of women

badminton in ourcountry. I wouldlike to congratu-late the winners ofthe Hyderabadqualifiers andwould wish themall the luck for thenational finals.”

Open exclu-sively for women

above the age of 16, all matcheswill be played on the knock outbasis where all pairs will play abest of 3 sets with 11 points (rallypoints) instead of the traditional21 points a set. Each pair, withprior notification to the refereecan call for a super point once ina set. By calling for a super point,the pair will get 2 points if theywin that particular point. Therewill be no deduction of points ifthe pair loses that point.

Players must be prepared toplay 5/6 matches in a day, dur-ing the event. 6 pairs will qualifyfor the National Finals (firstweek of November) i.e the win-ners from each city (5 cities) + 1lucky losing pair. Lucky loserwill be the pair that lost the fi-nals but scored the maximumnumber of points in that match.In case of 2 teams tied on thesame number of points, thesame from the previous roundwill be considered.

Aparna, Maitreyi winwomen shuttle doubles National champions of the tournament get delightfulopportunity to play against the best badminton doublesplayer in the country Ashwini Ponnappa and her partner

Shu�le women doubles winners Aparna and Maitreyi displaying their trophies atNizampet on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Sunday

Match Report:Aparna and Maitreyidefeated Harika Rathodand Harita Dileep instraight sets 11-1, 11-3Set 1: 11-1Set 2: 11-3 Hyderabad: The eight-day free

camp for tennis juniors, beingheld under the aegis of Acade-mia Sports Village (ASV) attheir courts in Hyderabad Poloand Riding Club (HPRC) in AzizNagar, Moinabad Mandal hasbegun on a grand note on Sat-

urday. The budding playerswere delighted to be trained byHyder Jaffari, a certified fitnesstrainer from Europe and alsoCEO of Indian Tennis Leagueon the first day of the trainingprogramme.

The aspiring tennis players,

numbering around 48 in the sixto 16 years age-group, had thebest possible start to theirDussera holidays as they couldlearn the nuances of the tech-niques from ASV’s in-housecoach Paul Sandeep and alsowork on their fitness from Jaf-

fari. Academia Sports Village ishoping to bring in more coachesin course of time.

The most talented are to getfree coaching for an extendedperiod, according to DurdanaArshi, COO of the OrganisingCommittee.

Eight-day free tennis campbegins on grand note

Young tennis players being trained at the eight-day free camp for tennis juniors in Moinabad on the outskirts of Hyderabad on Saturday

Hyd Ultra Marathon 2018 on Nov 4 Hyderabad: The second editionof Hyderabad Ultra Marathonbeing organised by NEB SportsEntertainment Private Ltd inassociation with Quest for Ex-cellence Gopichand Academyand Physical Literacy Days willbe held on November 4. Thecourse is meant to be tough,giving extra challenge to regu-lar marathoners. UltraMarathon will have categoriesof 50K, 25K, 12.5K and 5K

Swachch Bharat Run, accordingto a press release issued here onSunday.

Padmashree Pullela Gopic-

hand is the face of the event andhas been actively associatedwith running for sometimenow. The organisers said the re-

sponse to the event had beenencouraging with over 5,000people expected to run on therace day. Gopichand, who ispassionate about promoting fit-ness, said, “India needs to fostera culture of sports, fitness andhealth among the country’syoung and old alike, and eventslike these will go a long way inachieving this objective. I’m de-lighted to be a part of this ini-tiative.”

• NEB Sports Association with PGopichand Badminton Academy toconduct the marathon

• A total number of 5,000 people to takepart in the race.

Hyderabad: Inter Unit Telan-gana and Andhra Sub Area(TASA) Cross Country Cham-pionship was conducted in Se-cunderabad military station onSunday.

A total of sixty participantsfrom six units under TASAheadquarters participated inthe 12 km championship. The

start point was RSI Circle andthe culmination was at GoldenPalm Sports Plaza.

60 Supply Company teamemerged as winner and StationWorkshop Secunderabad asrunner up. Naik Sunil fromStation Workshop, Secunder-abad won the best runner tro-phy for completing the route

within 46 minutes. All theplayers participated in thechampionship with full enthu-siasm, displaying their truesportsmanship.

The championship endedwith distribution of medalsand trophies by Major GeneralN Srinivas Rao, General OfficerCommanding, TASA.

TASA Inter Unit crosscountry championship held

Winnersof theTASA InterUnit crosscountryracechampionshipdisplayingtheirtrophy inSecunderabad onSunday

D SHREYA VERONICA

Gautami an actress whoalso survived cancer,calls all the survivors as

winners. The founder of ‘LifeAgain Foundation’ was diag-nosed with breast cancer at theage of 35. She is quite a fighterand also gets very aggressivewhen she hears cancer patientsbeing ignored. Her aim is toreach the rural and tribal areasand create awareness about can-cer. She was at Continental Hos-pitals to launch the logo ofBreast Cancer Support Group.

Tell us about your associationwith Continental hospitals

Very often the greatest sup-port a patient can get is from an-other patient. Somebody, whocomes and speaks of her expe-rience; it makes a huge di�er-ence. So, that is what I and a lotof people that work with me andmy foundation do. I am veryhappy to see that Continentalcould recognise that this is agreat need and they have takenthis step to form this support.

What do you suggest for peoplesu�ering from cancer?

It is very important for us tosay that people are dealing withall kinds of cancer and not onlybreast cancer in specific. Weneed to repeat it again and

again because they are somecancers that are projectedwidely and because some-

body has taken only that is-sue as a cause in particular.

But the fact and thetruth is all cancersshould be taken very se-riously. Cancer is not

the end of the road,you face so many

challenges in life. Someare greater than others and somewe overcome easily. A large partof how you overcome dependson how you look at it and ap-proach it. Any doctor you look at

will tell you ‘I will give you med-icine and treat you’ but at themost that can only be 50 per centand the rest of the fight has tocome from the patient. Stay pos-itive and the power of positivityenergises the body and it hasbeen scientifically proven.

Are you taking your initiative toreach the rural arears?

Yes! I am. In fact, my actualfocus is on rural areas, smalltowns, villages. Now, our focusis also to start reaching the tribalareas.

Are you planning to come backinto movies again?

I am very much in the film in-dustry I haven’t gone anywhere.I have been involved in cinemain front of the camera and be-hind the camera. There is a proj-ect in mind and I am working onthe scripting. Let’s see what willhappen.

Is the #MeToo movement theright way to talk about sexualabuse?

I don’t know if this is a rightor a wrong way, because some-body who has lived in thistrauma even for a moment,there is no way anybody fromoutside their skin can under-stand that kind of trauma. Weare nobody to say it is right orwrong. You can’t really passjudgement on it. All I will say isthat any kind of issue especiallythe one that causes hurt and cre-ates a trauma that lasts a lifewhether it is on one person orwhole society it should not bekept within. I don’t thinkwomen should have ever keptsilent. I know many people arebeing gracious and recognisingthis, but it is probably one of themost di�cult things for awoman especially the one whohas been su�ering and abused.The most di�cult thing is tostand up and say that I havegone through this.

Gautami Tadimalla speaks about her supportto cancer winners and her upcoming movies

in a freewheeling conversation

Not a survivorbut a winner

DURGA CHAKRAVARTY

Popular for using vintage floracombined with zardozi em-

broidery from Hyderabad for hercreations, Anushree Reddy, whohas wowed many young bridesand fashionista with her work,says she wishes to design for Bol-lywood actress Aishwarya RaiBachchan, whom she calls theepitome of beauty.

Reddy launched her epony-mous label in 2010 that standsout for its scintillating coloursand easy-to-wear garmentsblended with glamour. Over theyears, she has styled the likes ofKareena Kapoor Khan, ShilpaShetty, Bipasha Basu and AthiyaShetty among others.

Asked if there is any personal-ity left she would like to give astyle twist with her designs,Reddy said, “That would be Aish-warya Rai Bachchan. I would loveto design an outfit for her. Shecarries every outfit e�ortlessly.She is the epitome of beauty andgrace.”

Talking about Bollywood'spresence playing a big role indriving a designer's popularitythese days, she said: “Yes, I doagree to some extent celebritiesdo increase a brand's visibility.They aid the designer in reachingout to a larger spectrum of audi-ence.”

Reddy holds a MBA degreefrom Cardi� University and callsherself a "self taught designer".

Asked if being a self taught de-

signer gives her an edgeover other designers, shesaid: "I feel like that's adouble edged thing some-times it works as an ad-vantage and sometimes asdisadvantage. From my ex-perience of being in thisindustry I believe that thisis something that can bedone without an edu-cation although itwould be great to bea fashion student and re-ceive a formal educationbut one can definetely dowithout it."

She says there aretimes where she needsto reach out for help whenit comes to a few technicalthings.

“But then again as I havenot learnt the rules Idon't have to stick tothem so that works as anadvantage. Owing to thatI can experiment morewith my collections mayit be the designs or thecolour palette and it all comes tome naturally,” she added.

Reddy showcased her latestrange “Vintage Rose” at the LotusMake-Up India Fashion Week(LMIFW). She has made her de-but at the ongoing fashion festhere. She says she is very excitedas this is her first time at theFashion Design Council Of India.

Talking about her collection,she said: “It is inspired by the oldworld charm and dusty rose pink

hues, my sig-nature floralprints are

used indi�erent

p e r m u t a -tions and

c o m b i n a -tions through the entire

collection.”The four-day fashion event

presented collections by design-ers like Wendell Rodricks,Samant Chauhan, Rahul Mishraamong many others and also sawa launch of a new organic skin-care brand ‘Ikkai’ by LotusHerbals. Their range includes or-ganic masks, sou�es and scrubs.


Hyderabad-baseddesigner Anushree

Reddy wants tostyleAishwarya Rai

Bachchan

Create safe and conducive atmosphere

Actress-model Malaika Aroraon Friday supported

#MeToo campaign which hasgathered momentum in India,saying it is up to the governmentand the work place concernedto create safe and conducive at-mosphere for working women.

Arora was interacting withthe media after launching heryoga studio "Diva Yoga", alongwith Amrita Arora, KarishmaKapoor, Arbaaz Khan andArhaan Khan in Mumbai.

Reacting to #MeToo move-ment, Malaika said: "I am not alawmaker to comment on thelegalities of this issue but if peo-

ple are talking about it, if peopleare becoming aware of it and ifmore women are coming for-ward and talking about theirstories, it's the biggest thing tohappen.

"I think it's up to the govern-ment and the work place con-cerned to create safe and soundatmosphere for workingwomen. My yoga studio is alsodedicated to women and wewant to make sure that womenfeel safe here, because theirsafety is the biggest thing. Grad-ually, everybody is going to dosomething to make sure thatwomen are safe, respected and

taken seriously." Malaika hastied up with celebrity manage-ment and entertainment mar-keting company Exceed Enter-tainment and yoga studio Zorbafor Diva Yoga, described as anelite yoga studio exclusively forwomen.

Talking about her love foryoga, Malaika said: "I have beenpractising yoga for many yearsand anybody who knows meknows my love for fitness andyoga. Yoga was introduced to mewhen I had a really bad injury.That's how I started doingyoga...and that's how my love af-fair with yoga started..." Credit-

ing Prime Minister NarendraModi for spreading awarenessabout yoga among people,Malaika said: "I think our PrimeMinister have created a lot ofawareness among people re-garding yoga, and after his ini-tiative, we observe 21st June as'International Yoga Day'. So, itis really nice that people havestarted incorporating yoga intheir daily fitness regime."

Malaika made her last appear-ance in a special song titled"Hello Hello..." in "Pataakha", di-rected by Vishal Bhardwaj. Shewill also be judging reality show"MTV India's Next Top Model".

Government,work placemust ensurewomen-friendlyatmosphere,says Malaika

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Navratri 2018 started anddevotees across the country

are enthralled to join in the cel-ebrations. The famous dandiyanights during Navratri call fordecking up in traditional outfits.Nidhi Jagtiani, Image Consultantand Stylist at Momspresso shareslast minute hacks. Colours� Going for loud colors such as

bright red and oranges are notvery trendy this season. Onecan play it down with maroonand gold, rose gold, lavendergrey, ivory etc. Using gold isthe key to look trendy andbeautiful.Jewelry

� Try heavy jewellery on lightcolors. Big earrings or state-ment necklace. Trending Outfits

� Regular sarees are getting re-placed by comfortableshararas/palazzos and full-length dress-like suits withlight weight dupattas.

� Harem pants and dhoti stylepants have also been gainingpopularity this season. Few fashion tips this festive

season, as per body type � Women with a heavy upper

body can try layering with em-

broidered jackets on suitsto give a slimming appear-ance. They can also trycontrasting colors likeblue and orange, red andgreen or yellow and pur-ple. � Ponchos and capes areanother popular trend,particularly in fabricssuch as net, organza orfine silks. This also cre-ates slimming e�ect.

• If lowerbody is heavy then pleaseavoid churidars and re-place them with straightpants or palazzos and doadd heels. �If upper body is tonedthen crop top is a greatidea along with full lengthflared skirt/dhoti style

pants.Tips for wearing sareesas per body type - � O� shoulder blouses, shoulder

slit blouses and boat necklinesare also great for toned armsand to show o� your collarbones.

� Try a slim fit petticoat for mak-ing your lower body look slim.

� Wear a single or solid color inSaree with an embroideredblouse, if your upper body isheavy

� If you are heavy on the stom-ach, avoid a low waist look andwear your petticoat above thenavel.

� Avoid heavy and bulky fabricssuch as raw silk that may bedi�cult to manage and canmake your body appear fullerand disproportionate.

Get the rightlook thisNavratri

Photo byN Shiva Kumar Meru

Garments blendedwith glamour

She showcasedher latest range“Vintage Rose”

at the Lotus

Make-Up India

Fashion Week

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11PERSPECTIVE

LETTERS

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Titli should be declarednational calamity

The Titli cyclone has left Srikakulam districtin tatters. The devastation has reached to

such a proportion that it should be called a na-tional calamity, causing damages to propertiesworth thousands crore rupees. Due to prepared-ness and timely action, the loss of lives has beenreduced to minimum. The Chief minister ofAndhra Pradesh has been doing a commendablejob by leading the teams from the front duringrescue operations. But one should take it into ac-count the fact that every cyclone, be it Hudhudor Titli, proved to be devastating. Though thecoastal area is prone to cyclones, the frequencyand severity of calamities are on the rise thesedays, thanks to the mindless violations on nature.The Centre should lend its helping hand to cy-clone a�ected Andhra Pradesh generously and intime. It is disturbing to know that the promisedassistance to Hudhud victims of 2014 has yet tobe realised fully. Such callousness should notcreep in the way of the relief operations now.Long-term plans to restore the ecosystem is theneed of the hour.

Dr D V G Sankararao, MIMS, Nellimarla,Vizianagaram

IIIt is a matter of deep anguish that Cyclone Titli

left a trail of destruction causing landslides,significant damage to roads and housing infra-structure in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Odishaand West Bengal. It has been most disastrous tothe farming sector with standing crops getting se-riously damaged. Trees and polls uprooted byrecorded wind speeds of 126 km per hour fell onthem, heavy rain left several areas inundated andlivestock were washed away or crushed undertrees. An estimated number of 60 lakh peoplehave been reported to be a�ected by the calamityin Odisha. Approximately, 8,962 houses have beendamaged. In such critical and devastating situa-tion, the Central government must sanction achunk of relief fund and the State governmentmust take precautionary steps and try to preventloss of human life by relief operations on a warfooting. It is also our moral obligation to pray fora�ected ones and help them as much as we can.

Ismail Mulla, Kannur

IIIIt is very disheartening to hear that Cyclone

Titli claimed many lives and left many injured.It is reported that around 60 lakh people were af-fected in all. My deepest condolences are for thefamily members of deceased. There is big losswhich cannot be counted. The natural disasterthat poured in from the sky in not under our con-trol but if it happens so, we can help victims inmany ways. I urge the government, all NGOs andour fellowmen to step forward to help and con-tribute with Odisha's people in this critical situ-ation. I request the government that it should im-prove in its weather system which could informbefore the coming fury like this so that we canprepare to face it very easily.

M U Qasmi, Mumbai

Elect the right leaderExistence of democracy in India is a remark-

able sign of our respect to individual freedom.People have the power to elect their governmentby exercising their universal adult franchise. Afew months from now, elections are about to beheld in Andhra Pradesh and only a month left forAssembly polls in Telangana. Leaders have al-ready started campaigning for votes from peopleby using their wealth and power. We all, as Indiancitizens, should use our right to vote. But questionhere is which party is the right one and to whomshould we cast our votes. As almost all parties arepromising to bring changes in towns and villagesacross the State, people are a confused lot. Theseparties generally do not show their faces to thepeople once they come to power. Now everythingin public hand, so one should do a thoroughchecking before exercising their voting rights.They should find the right leaders and party whoare able to win and take care of the public welfareand pay attention only in the development of theState. My heartily request is that people shouldnot waste their votes by electing the wrong party.Make your votes valuable as much as possible.Otherwise we will have to face many problemsand sometimes dangerous and bad situations inlife.

Sayee Nadwi, Hyderabad

Kudos to Rahul Gandhi!It really shows the courage of Congress presi-

dent Rahul Gandhi in intensifying his high-pitch campaign against the Modi governmentover the Rafale deal constantly. As he assertedthat his party would fight on the issue in ‘everystreet’ in country, it shows Rahul Gandhi has un-derstood the need to expose all misdeeds of theModi government in destroying the ‘strategic as-set’ State-run aerospace company HAL continu-ously. Taking benefit of the wrongdoings of theBJP, Rahul Gandhi has been making e�orts to ex-plain to the people from the beginning about sev-

eral irregularities in the Central government. Heis waking up the people saying that ‘Rafale is yourright’. I would like to congratulate the courage ofRahul Gandhi.

A Zafar, Mumbai

Predators at workplace It's sad to see that there are several cases of sex-

ual violence or rape attempts against womenirrespective of their age and profession being re-ported on a daily basis. These atrocities againstwoman are not confined to one profession andthe phenomena is present in all professions wherewomen are working. In recent times, the #MeToocampaign by victims of sexual assault at work-place is gaining importance and many women arecoming forward boldly disclosing what injusticehad been done to them and how they were vic-timised by sexual predators. Interestingly, it isfound that such unsafe work conditions prevailin journalism and cinema as several senior jour-nalists and Bollywood and Tollywood actressescoming out in the open and sharing their experi-ences on public platforms. Only a very few inci-dents are coming to limelight whereas hundredsof other women professionals who are not boldenough are not willing to talk about the harass-ment they faced at their workplace openly be-cause of the society. However, it is a welcome signthat at least a few women are sharing their worstexperiences in #MeToo.

One has to overcome their weaknesses whenthey are in high-profile jobs and should stop ha-rassing their women colleagues. I hope this#MeToo movement will definitely teach a lessonto predators in workplace and will help stop suchinhuman practices in the future.

Kanagiri S Prasad, Ramanthapur, Hyderabad

IIThe #MeToo tsunami has revealed the names

of people with great reputation. These are thepeople whom we look to as role models in theirrespective fields. All the women who have madeallegations are from well-educated background.This shows that any person is vulnerable to sexualexploitation whether they are educated or not. Ifeven well-educated women are being exploitedsexually, then the plight of women from lowersections of the society seems to be miserable. Thesocial media has given us a platform to vent ouranger against such people who think they cannotbe exposed by any means. The government shouldimplement stringent measures to prevent sexualexploitation at work. It is nice to hear that theMinster for Women and Child Development isplanning to set up a panel to investigate into theseallegations. This would send a message to the peo-ple that no matter how famous you are, you willbe punished for your misdeeds.

Adithya Sirikonda, Siddipet

Keep restraints on Sabarimala issue Already a tense situation is prevailing in Kerala

in connection with the Supreme Court verdictallowing the entry of women (in menstruatingage group) to the famed Sabarimala temple. Eventhough the Supreme Court ordered that theyshould be permitted to enter the sanctum sanc-torum of the temple, it is to be implemented onlyafter convincing all the stakeholders concerned.This is not a pure legal matter. It is connected tonot only the sentiments of devotees but also age-old rituals. Celerity in implementing the apexcourt's verdict may lead to untoward conse-quences. So-called reformists like Trupti Desaishould observe restraint in this issue, lest the sit-uation will become tense and may go out of con-trol.

Venkata Seshasai DeeviNarasaraopet

Growing awareness onPadma awards This is with reference to news item appeared

in The Hans India (Nearly 50,000 nomina-tions for the 2019 Padma awards, October 12). Itis heartening to see that the Ministry received somany nominations for the prestigious awards forexceptional achievements in di�erent fields. It isa good sign that common people also believe thereis a possibility of recognition of their works andachievements. In recent years, the Padma awardswere bestowed on so many common people whomade it big in various fields though they lived inrural areas of the country. It is a great victory ofthe government that people have faith in it. Therecord number of 49,992 nominations for thePadma awards received this time is 32 timeshigher than the nominations received in 2010when just 1,313 nominations were received fromthe general public. It shows that the governmentmachinery is full of transparency and accounta-bility. It is no matter who will be selected forPadma awards, but it is remarkable recognitionof participation of general public in our democ-racy. It is also interesting to note that applicantsknow how to apply and where to apply for thePadma awards. I congratulate all the applicantsfor their real spirit and enthusiasm. I also con-gratulate the editorial board team for publishingsuch a positive news item.

Narsimha Rao Kalyani, Mahbubnagar

Andhra Pradesh Chief MinisterN Chandrababu Naidu appears

to be earning more number of en-emies than friends lately.

After he divorced from the Na-tional Democratic Alliance (NDA)early this year, the BJP has lockedhorns with him. Jana Sena chiefPawan Kalyan fell out with himlong ago. He is now testing politicalwaters as to whether he would getan opportunity that his brotherChiranajeevi had missed, in grab-bing the Chief Minister’s chair inAmaravati. YSRCP chief YS JaganMohan Reddy has been there sincebeginning, biding his time to go forhis jugular.

Now latest in the list is Telan-gana Chief Minister K Chan-drashekar Rao. Naidu’s interest inTelangana elections has become aneye-sore for him. He wanted himto confine himself to AP just as theway he was limiting his operationsto Telangana. But Naidu, by align-ing with the Congress, is trying tomake insurrection into Telangana,ru�ing KCR’s feathers.

After Chandrababu Naidushifted to Amaravati in 2015, itlooked as though there was a cease-fire between the two leaders. Naidufound his way to Vijayawada andfrom there to Undavalli and finallyconstructed his own Secretariatfrom where he has been adminis-tering the State since then.

After Chandrashekar Rao quitDeputy Speaker’s post and set upTelangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) in2001, he founded his Telanganamovement mainly on anti-Naiduplank and on how this Andhraleader had led others in plunderingTelangana. Though the Congresstook over in 2014, most of Chan-drashekar Rao’s attack was on theTDP than on the Congress. As theTelangana movement reached the

homestretch, everyone includingNaidu had reconciled the forma-tion of Telangana State. The in-evitable had happened and Naidumoved over to Andhra and KCRtook over Telangana. That is all his-tory and it is behind us.

Now Naidu has to reckon withChandrashekar Rao as the TDPsupremo wants to flog the TeluguDesam back into life somehow orthe other in Telangana. LosingTelangana to KCR was a develop-ment with which he is still not ableto come to grips with. He waxes elo-quent on the days that had goneinto oblivion when he was the ChiefMinister of the integrated AndhraPradesh and how had sown seedsfor the software sector to flourishand how he had raised Hitec city andpersuaded Microsoft and other ITmajors to set up shop in Hyderabad.He always ruminates on how muche�ort he had made to develop Hy-derabad, despitethe fact that his fas-cination for Hyderabad always rat-tles KCR and his son KTR.

At a time when KCR was thinkingthat he had seen the last of Chan-drababu Naidu, he is back on Telan-gana soil, trying to help the party ac-quire life. KCR knows very well thatNaidu, if allowed to operate inTelangana, could be a real pain inthe neck and his outbursts againsthim in election rallies held thus farare a proof to this. His warning thathe would open his third eye is a sub-tle threat to him that he may beforced to reopen Naidu’s cash forvote scam which rocked TelanganaState ahead of elections to Telan-gana Legislative Council in 2015.But, undaunted Naidu has his ownplans – he wants to see the party upand going in Telangana which alonesatisfies him, despite the fact thatKCR had been able to proselytizepeople of Telangana into Naidubaiters. But Nadu’s camp believesthat people in 2014 elections werecarried away by the KCR’s oratorybecause they were heady with the joyof obtaining statehood to their re-gion. But during the last four-and-a-half years, a lot of water has flowedin the Musi, and the TDP leaders be-lieve that the people now would com-pare KCR’s administration with thatof Naidu’s till 2004 and that of theCongress till 2014. The Congress, not

very sure if it could take on KCRsingly, extended its hand to Naidu tocome and fight with KCR together.Now the TDP is part of the alliancethat is ranged against the TRS.

But KCR is seething with rage thatNaidu should come back to Telan-gana and take up cudgels against himby aligning with the Congress. If KCRwins this election, as is being widelybelieved, Naidu would have a toughtime back in AP when he would befacing elections in May next year.Though KCR would not be there outin the open as he has no electoraltakes in AP, he would, however, bethere to help out all the forces thatwould want to bring Naidu down –

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, PawanKalyan and of course the BJP withwhom, it is rumoured, he has an un-written understanding.

KTR, who is being referred to asde facto Chief Minister of Telangana,also handed out a warning to Naiduonly on Saturday, asking him to for-get Telangana in his own interest. Hedoes not see why Naidu should dab-ble in Telangana politics where hehas no stakes. “We are being forcedto come down on Naidu. Are we at-tacking Pawana Kalyan or YS JaganMohan Reddy? Aren’t they operatingonly in AP?” he argues.

At the end of the day, Naiduwould have to reckon with two vis-ible enemies – Jagan Mohan Reddyand Pawana Kalyan, invisible foeKCR and finally the Central BJP

leadership, which, sitting at Delhiwill be moving the pawns in the po-litical chess board to make life di�-cult for him.

The TDP believes that the BJP isvery active now and the IT raids onthe TDP leaders’ houses bare all itsintentions. At present IT raids aregoing on the houses and o�ces ofTDP Rajya Sabha member CMRamesh. The TDP says they wereintended to demoralise the partyand the cadres ahead of elections.Ramesh vowed to take legal re-course against the raids and alsolodge complaint with Central Vig-ilance Commission. He says raidshave been ordered after he hadsought details of Income Tax raidstaking place in AP, Telangana, Gu-jarat and Rajasthan. The IncomeTax o�cials had already raidedtwo other TDP leaders’ houses inAP and it is believed that theirnext target is Municipal MinisterP Narayana whose family pro-motes Narayana Educational In-stitutions across the two States ofAP and Telangana.

While this is so, it is not veryclear whether the Congress withwhom Naidu is going to face theelections in Telangana is hisfriend or he is its fried, as in poli-tics, it is not the same all the time.Both are in need if each other.Who would use whom more is allwhat that matters in elections. Itwill decide whether Naidu ac-quired a friend in the Congress orthe other way round.

Finally, it all boils down to thefact that at the moment, the TDPis suspecting every developmentis one that is being triggered byits political rival BJP. As all is gristthat is going to TDP’s mill, the yel-low party is moving ahead withgreat caution as in election timeusually the parties that are inpower try to bully the opponentsusing the investigation agenciesthat are at their disposal. WithKCR hinting at cash for votescam, the centre “ordering” ITraids and YS Jagan Mohan Reddyand Pawan Kalyan taking streetsto settle political scores withNaidu, it appears the TDPsupremo should get ready for alonely battle as he is one againstmany.

It’s lonely battle for Naidu; KCR on defensive

TUFAILAHMAD

In her column of 14 October, senior journalistTavleen Singh murders 803 words to declare

#MeToo movement in India as ‘irrelevant’ and‘a shabby copy’ of its counterpart in America,to dismiss criticisms on Twitter of her defenceof alleged sexual predators as a ‘torrent ofabuse’, and to defend her ‘friend Suhel Seth’despite multiple accusations of sexual harass-ment.

She feels for a Minister who could ‘lose hisjob’ as junior Foreign Minister and feels noth-ing for more than a dozen women who facedharassment by him. The Minister is MJ Akbar(he reportedly resigned on Sunday).

Like Tavleen Singh, there are many apolo-gists on social media demanding, much like Is-lamic clerics do, that the raped women producefour witnesses. The likes of her will believethem only when they visit courts and produceevidences. But, #MeToo is relevant preciselybecause women cannot enter police stationsand courts safely. First, our society shames thesurvivors, not the rapists. Second, cops humil-iate them in police stations. Third, lawyers seekto demean them in courts in the presence ofmale judges, lawyers and others. Patriarchy issexual assault.

The society is the rapist. This is the reasonwomen are speaking up on Twitter, not in thesociety. The society teaches raped women tocommit suicide and not cause 'dishonour' totheir family by speaking up. The society teachesthem to su�er in silence, a key reason why sur-vivors have been silent for so many years. Everyact of sexual harassment is a continuing psy-chological trauma. The society teaches themto keep their mouths shut. The silence has ad-vocates in the form of Singh who draw socialboundaries for them. But, #MeToo has alreadybecoming relevant.

Teenagers in colleges and universities are dis-cussing new norms of behaviour. Teachers andprincipals of schools are debating. Male man-agers in shops and o�ces are forced by #MeTooto unlearn inherited patriarchal behaviour. Sex-ual predators in workplaces, in the Parliamentand in social environments are terrified. A sit-ting member of the Indian Parliament fromKarnataka was so afraid that he obtained a gagorder to silence a right-wing activist. As a resultof #MeToo, young women are acquiring atti-tude. In sociology, attitude is girls’ empower-ment.

Singh ridicules #MeToo in India as ‘imitative’of the West. But, social change rarely comesfrom within. Almost invariably, social changecomes from interacting with external ideasthrough forces of technology, globalisation, orwars.

Raja Ram Mohan Roy was inspired by Englishequality when he opposed Sati, the widow burn-ing. In 1776, America became the first moderndemocracy. Today, most of the 193 members ofthe UN are democracies or quasi-democracies.

The black movement grew in America. Itspawned the feminist movement.

Movements of ideas begin from one countryand spread to others. #MeToo began in Americaand, like democracy, is entering Indian societynow. We cannot expect the generation of ourmothers and grandmothers to speak forwomen’s rights and individual liberty. Theygrew up in an era when democratic attitudeswere yet to seep into our society. In India,democracy was imposed from the top in 1950.Democratic ideas and attitudes are beginningto be acquired by our next generation. It is notincidental that most of #MeToo advocates whoare speaking fiercely are young, very articulate,and supremely confident.

If Singh is right that everything ‘imitative’ ofthe West is wrong, it would mean we should alsoreject blue jeans which empower our girls, Twit-ter which enables our women to speak up, rail-ways which propel our women to go long dis-tances and alone, and democracy which

propelled more than 1.3 million women intoPanchayati raj institutions — something the In-dian society wouldn’t permit.

Singh mocks ‘militant Indian feminists... whoburned bras when feminism was fashionable’— but, listen ma’am, they were far ahead of theirtime. Their souls would be watching #MeToowith cosmic satisfaction.

Societies are hostile environments. Many ret-rogressive forces on social media have dismissed#MeToo advocates as elite, urban, educatedwomen. But in reality, movements of ideas andreform do indeed originate from the educatedwomen living in cities and percolate into lesseducated classes and in rural areas, or into Hindijournalism. We are witnessing a trend of menand women marrying into di�erent castes andreligions because they have acquired new dem-ocratic attitudes after having studied in cities.Cities give birth to self-aware individuals andsecure their liberties, while villages drown theminto caste and religious orthodoxies.

Irrespective of what happens to the survivorsin courts and police stations, merely listening

to them opens up cultural space in whichwomen can feel more secure than they werepreviously. #MeToo is hugely relevant because55 percent of nearly 1.3 billion Indians are under25 years of age. This movement is relevant moreto them than to us and our ancestors. Singh nar-rates real stories of rapes and so-called honourkillings to murder #MeToo. Her journalisticnarration is, well, a narration designed to defendculprits, unlike #MeToo which has emerged asa tool of empowerment which scissors into al-leys of our society and exposes its criminals.

Her column reveals a profound lack of un-derstanding of how patriarchy subjugateswomen in varying ways. When she talks of the'honour' killing of a Muslim girl, there is failureto grasp that it is patriarchy, not Islam, that ismurderous.

Many of those who are demanding proof from#MeToo survivors will be willing to execute aMuslim in the court of public opinion withoutasking for evidence if he was falsely implicatedin a terror case. The power is male. In our soci-ety, women are taught to succumb to the dic-tates of men — like in the cases where womenconvert to Islam to marry. It's patriarchy, notIslam alone, because I have not seen Hindu boysconverting to Islam to marry a Muslim woman,barring exceptions.

In our society, only a female changes to thetunes of a man irrespective of religion.

Singh rightly observes: “More than a hundredIndian women get raped every day, four out of10 are children, and 94 percent of the perpetra-tors are relatives". This is the precise reason In-dia needs #MeToo.

She notes how after Jyoti Singh’s brutal gan-grape, “All that we got was a stricter law. We al-ready have too many laws.” Yes, laws don’t work– so #MeToo is needed in Indian society. Shesays “American realities are very di�erent” – noma’am, realities for women are everywhere thesame, their subjugation has lasted for centuriesacross world.

She also notes that ‘in its Indian incarnation,MeToo is irrelevant’ — actually, it is more rele-vant in India than in the United States.

Singh also has grudge against liberals andwrites: “So illiberal are the ‘liberals’ leading theMeToo movement” — a precise reason, sheshould be part of #MeToo. Singh should beginby naming the editor who told her that she had“wasted” her time by writing a detailed reporton the gangrape of a woman by policemen inGujarat’s Bharuch district.

If that editor had been challenged by her, shewould be part of #MeToo in India of today. Herarticle is an apologia seeking to murder the soulof individual liberty.

The author is a former BBC journalist andsenior fellow at the Middle East Media Re-

search Institute in Washington, DC.(This article was first published at

http://www.firstpost.com. Reprinted with theirpermission)

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“We have great car com-panies entering our countryagain. This hasn’t happenedfor 35 years.

“We have companies likeFoxconn going to Wisconsinwith a massive, massiveplant,” he said.

“We need people comingin, but we want them tocome in on merit. We wantpeople that are going to helpus. It’s very important,”Trump said.

Observing that immigra-tion is not tricky to him, he insisted that the adminis-tration and the Congresshave to do the right thingwhether there’s an election or not.

He opposed the chain mi-gration policy and said, “Ifthat’s a bad policy, thenguess what, a lot of badthings are going to happen.But a lot of people agreewith me. I would say a vastmajority of our countryagrees. They don’t wantcriminals coming into ourcountry. They don’t wantpeople that they don’t wantin the country that aren’tgoing to help us as a country.They don’t want these peo-ple coming in. So we have avery strong policy.”

India crushWest IndiesCon�nued from page 1

Ashwin and Shardul then showedsome resistance to take their side pastthe 350-run mark. Gabriel finally per-formed the last rites as he bowled outAshwin as India managed to take a 56-run lead in reply to the West Indies'first innings total of 311 runs.

In the post-lunch session, the visi-tors looked to be in a hurry as the In-dian bowlers came all guns blazing todemolish the Caribbean top-order,who were tottering at 45/4 at one stage.

Sunil Ambris (38) tried to put up afight but lacked support from theother end as the entire team fell likea pack of cards and could only man-age to put on 127 runs, handing Indiaa meagre 72-run target.

Apart from Umesh, off-spinnerRavindra Jadeja looked good for histhree wickets, conceding just 12 runs.

The two sides will now clash in thefive-match ODI rubber, starting Octo-ber 21 in Guwahati.

Jana to tameKodandaramContinued from page 1

It may be recalled here thatJana Reddy worked closely withKodandaram in 2009, after theCentre announced initiation ofTelangana formation process andlater went back. Jana Reddy pro-posed to form a front with Kodan-daram to continue the fight forTelangana at that time. Keepingthis in view the PCC core commit-tee entrusted the responsibility ofconvincing Kodandaram to JanaReddy. Rahul visit

Meanwhile, the core committeediscussed the tour of AICC presi-dent Rahul Gandhi in the state onOctober 20 and 27. The committeehas finalized Rahul's schedule onOctober 20. According to this,Rahul will arrive at ShamshabadAirport at 10.30 am and wouldproceed to Charminar.

He takes part in the party flaghoisting function and Rajiv Sadb-havana Yatra at 11.30 am. Later hewould address a public meeting.

He would have launch at 12.30pm and would meet senior lead-ers of the party at 1.30 pm. He willthen leave for Bhainsa in Adilabaddistrict by helicopter and wouldaddress a public meeting at 2.45pm. He would reach Kamareddy at4.45 pm and would address an-other public meeting at 6.15 pm.Rahul would leave for Delhi at 8pm from Shamshabad Airport.

The core committee has en-trusted the responsibility of thepublic meetings to AICC secre-taries Madhu Yashki and SalimAhmed Bose Raju.

Speaking to the mediapersonsafter the core committee meeting,Madhu Yashki said that severalprominent leaders of the TRS, in-cluding deputy chief ministers,former MLAs and ministers wereeager to join the Congress. Theymay join the Congress on October20 in the presence of RahulGandhi at the public meetings orin a programme at Hyderabad.

C M Ramesh terms I-T raids ‘political vendetta’

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Hyderabad: Rajya Sabha MP C MRamesh made sensational com-ments that Income-Tax sleuthshave warned his o�ce sta� notto go against Central governmentor else face serious consequenceslike I-T raids which were held forlast few days. He termed the freshdevelopment as nothing but aclear case of political vendetta.Ramesh said he will pursue a le-gal battle and also complain toCentral Vigilance Commissionon how an MP was targeted forraising his voice and speakingfacts.

Addressing media at NTRTrust Bhavan, he said raids wereconducted with a search warrantwhich was illegal and not proper.``The search warrant issued onmy wife stated that she was a Di-rector in an Agri firm. However,the truth is neither she is a Di-rector nor a share-holder in thatfirm,’’ the MP said. Further, hestated that raids were conductedin 25 places in Kadapa, Hyder-abad, Chennai, Bengaluru and

New Delhi including his house,Rithwik o�ces and also resi-dences and o�ces of his friendsand relatives, who are no wayconnected with his business.

``When asked whether therewas any information of tax eva-sion or any irregularities, the re-sponse was pressure from NewDelhi. Normally they should givenotice, which was also not done.Raids were conducted in Rithwikold o�ces in Delhi that was va-cated six years ago and in Ben-galuru, from where we shifted toa new location three years ago,"he said. After three-days search,all they could find was Rs 3.53lakh cash in his house and an-other Rs 73,000 in Rithwik o�ce,the TDP MP said.

He said a section of media re-ported false information aboutthe raids stating that key docu-ments and information aboutthousands of crores of rupeescame to light in raids. ``The truth

is that documents they foundwere pass books and chequebooks of bank accounts of myfamily members. Neither ourfamily nor our company has anyaccounts in Allahabad that wasalso falsely projected. A hard-disk from a computer used by myson that has over 300 movies hasbeen taken away. Rithwikturnover itself was Rs 1,300 crorelast year and we are expecting toincrease it to Rs 1,500 crore. Ifthis is the case, where is the ques-tion of seizing thousands ofcrores of rupees in I-T raids," heasked.

Ramesh said that Rithwik wasestablished 20 years ago and wasinto big projects and works in thecombined state itself. Whateverprojects that they were taking upin the residuary AP state wereaccording to rules and after ful-filling required parameters.

“Mithun Reddy (YSRC MP)could take up Rs 2,000 crore

worth of works in just one yearin Telangana. But if my firm takesup Rs 2,000 crore worth of worksin four years it is being projectedin a wrong way, which is notproper," the MP said. He attrib-uted these raids on his lettergiven to I-T department as PAC(Public Accounts Committee)member seeking information ofraids in Andhra Pradesh, Telan-gana and in other states like Gu-jarat and Rajasthan.

I-T raids concludeMeanwhile, Income Tax raids

on TDP MP C M Ramesh con-cluded on Sunday afternoon.Search operations continued forthird consecutive day at RithwikProjects Private Limited o�ce atSagar Society, Road Number 2 inBanjara Hills. IT o�cials soughtclarifications from the manage-ment over the seizure of severalkey documents.

As the I-T o�cials found thatRithwik Projects o�ce is the keycenter for the financial transac-tions, auditing and payments ofthe bills in the businesses of C MRamesh and his family members,they did a thorough enquiry inthe o�ce. Earlier I-T o�cialsconducted search operations inC M Ramesh's brother and hisbrother-in-law’s residences ando�ces for more than 20 hoursand sought information on keydocuments seized during theraids.

I-T o�cials investigated thor-oughly and checked the tax vio-lations made by the company.They issued notices to the C MRamesh’s wife seeking more in-formation about alleged tax vio-lations.

� Alleges that I-T officialshave warned his staff notto challenge the Centre

� Income-Tax sleuthsconclude raids on theTDP Rajya Sabha MP’sresidence and offices onSunday afternoon

� Showing Panchanamacopies, Ramesh says onlyRs 3.53 lakh cash anddocuments relating tobank account detailswere found

TDP Rajya Sabha MP C M Ramesh addressing the media in Hyderabad on Sunday

DR H C UPADHYAY

True to his word given to thenation a few days before as-

suming the office of the ChiefJustice of India that he wouldunfold plans to resolve the hugependency of cases and inabilityof poor to access justice, CJIRanjan Gogoi has begun the ex-ercise by trying to discipline thejudiciary.

According to reliable sources,Justice Gogoi has interactedwith collegium members ofeach High Court through videoconferencing to prescribe somestrong medicine for the bur-geoning pendency of cases. Thismedicine is imposing a ban onleaves on working days unlessthere is an urgency.

The CJI has also asked thejudges to bring to his notice im-mediately if any of the HighCourt or subordinate courtjudges fail to adhere to the newregime. Such errant judges, ac-cording to the sources, wouldhave all judicial work with-drawn from them. The CJI alsodecried the practice of judgesattending seminars and officialfunctions on working days, asthis cuts down on the time thatthey need to prepare for thenext day hearing of cases. TheCJI made it clear that the judi-cial officers will not be allowedto avail themselves of LTC orex-India leave during working

days, except in cases of an ur-gency.

In the video conferencing,the CJI also reportedly em-phasised on the necessity toexpedite the process of fillingin judicial vacancies. He alsofavoured the idea of dailymonitoring of cases in subor-dinate courts as against quar-terly reports.

With regard to the pendingcases, the CJI suggested that in-fructuous cases should first beweeded out. Next, the appealsfiled by the convicts lodged injail for criminal cases must beidentified. Finally, those casespending for more than five yearsmust be listed and disposed ofafter hearing the parties.

Thus, the new CJI has madethe beginning of his tenure witha sixer. By implication, in reject-ing the pleas of early hearing ofSabarimala and Durgapuja cases,he has also made it clear thatgone are the days when certainsections of the legal fraternitycould indulge in arm-twistingand get the doors of the apexcourt opened at the dead hour.He has also chastised thelawyers moving lunch motionswithout any urgency and warnedthat if this practice is not givenup, they would lose the privilegeof moving lunch motions.

Now, the ball is in lawyers’court. How sincerely andpromptly they cooperate with

the judiciary would determinethe success or failure of theCJI’s initiative. It has been ob-served that quite often thelawyers resolve to the delayingor dragging tactics as it wouldbenefit their clients. But if theholistic view of the matter istaken, speedy disposal of caseswould enhance the image of ju-diciary as well as legal profes-

sion besides reenforcing thepublic confidence in both.

Panchayat Raj polls In a bid to protect the peo-

ples’ participation in local self-governance, the HyderabadHigh Court has ordered that theelections to Panchayats shouldbe held within three months.

Disposing of a batch of writpetitions, Justice M S Ra-machandra Rao underlined theimportance of peoples’ partici-

pation in governance in truespirit of democracy.

Special courtsThe Supreme Court took a

stern view of as many as 11States and High Courts in notproviding information on theestablishment of Special Courtsfor trying cases involving legis-lators. The court warned theChief Secretaries and RegistrarGenerals of such States andUnion Territories that theywould be held personally liableif the information sought for isnot provided within four weeks.

A three–judge bench headedby the CJI Ranjan Gogoi notedthat the States of Goa, HimachalPradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram,Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttarak-hand, Chandigarh, Dadra andNagar Haveli , Daman and Diuand Lakshadweep, besides theHigh Courts of Karnataka, Ker-ala and Tripura had failed toprovide the requisite informa-tion.

Certainly, such a tough standby the apex court would enablethe country to get rid of corruptand criminal elements in thebody politics of our nation.

Court proceedingsWhen trial court proceedings

are stayed, there is no need forthe parties to be in court till thestay is vacated or modified by thecourt which granted the stay,

said the Supreme Court benchcomprising Justice KurianJoseph and Justice S AbdulNazeer in an order passed onOctober 12 in Sapna Arora Vs.State of Punjab observed as fol-lows: “We fail to understand thelogic behind such a practice, ifthe submission of the learnedcounsel is correct. We make itclear that since the proceedingsare stayed, there is no need forthe parties to be in court till thestay is vacated or modified by thecourt which granted the stay.”

SC on vegetarianismHearing for admission the

W.P (Civil) No. 1181 of 2018 filedby Healthy, Wealthy Ethical,World Guide India Trust andothers against the Union of In-dia and others, the benchheaded by Madan B Lokur re-marked that the court cannotpass an order that everyoneshould become vegetarian.However, the court issued no-tice to the Central government.

The petitioners submittedthat killing of living creaturesand making profit out of it is a “cruel, loathsome, barbaric andunconstitutional policy andtherefore, the State should notpromote, encourage or supportmeat trade for the purposes ofboth export and domestic con-sumption.” The petition seeksto declare meat trade as ‘res ex-tra commercium’.

It is pointed out that Articles48 and 51 A of the Constitutionhighlights the concern for ani-mal rights. Citing the apexcourt’s judgements in Mirzapurand Jellikattu cases, the petitionstates, “ It is very crucial in thepublic interest to stop the In-dian State from promoting atrade which is essentially de-structive of life, violative ofConstitution, Animal Welfarestatues, and threatening rightsand lives of both humans andliving creatures.”

SC recommends news CJsJustice Ramesh Ran-

ganathan of Hyderabad HighCourt has been recommendedfor elevation as the Chief Jus-tice of Uttarakhand High Courtby the Supreme Court Col-legium comprising the CJIRanjan Gogoi, Justice M BLokur and Justice KurianJoseph. The vacancy fell vacantconsequent upon elevation ofJustice K M Joseph as aSupreme Court Judge.

Similarly, Justice N H Patilhas been recommended as thechief Justice of Bombay HighCourt while Justice A SBopanna as the Chief Justiceof Guwahati High Court. Jus-tice Vijai Kumar Bist and Jus-tice D K Gupta too, have beenrecommended for elevation asthe Chief Justices of SikkimHigh Court and Calcutta HighCourt respectively.

CJI trying to induct discipline into judiciary

CIRCLESLEGAL

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Hyderabad: Telangana PradeshCongress Committee (TPCC)Election Commission Coordina-tion Committee ChairmanMarri Shashidhar Reddy on Sun-day alleged that the EC hasopened Electronic Voting Ma-chines (EVMs) godown threedays ago without informing anypolitical party causing doubts.

Speaking to media, Shashid-har Reddy said as per rules, theEC should take up video record-ing of seal removal and puttingthe seal in presence of nodal o�-cer. But the nodal o�cer had leftthe godown before sealing theEVMs and before closing thegodown, he said, and alleged thatsomething was going wrong inthe godown. Reminding ChiefElectoral O�cer Rajat Kumar’sstatement made on Saturdaythat the EVMs were facing tech-nical problems and 25,000 voteswere only missing in the voterlist and it would be solved withinone week, Marri threw a chal-lenge at EC saying that he wasready to prove that 25 lakh voteswere missing.

Marri said the time left for theelection was not enough to solvethe enrolment issues being raisedby them. The elections will not beheld smoothly with the wrongvoter enrolment process. Therewas a need to postpone the elec-tions, Marri said and asked theEC to initiate action against theo�cers committed mistakes if itwants to work properly andtransparently.

He urged the High Court toconduct a trial on voter list con-

sidering all issues. He said he waswaiting to see as to what sort ofaction the Court will initiate.Making it clear the Congressparty was not against EC, he saidit was ready to work with the EC.

He said the Election Commis-sion announced election sched-ule in Telangana State withoutsolving the problems in voter listand the people have severaldoubts on EC’s voter list process-ing. TPCC o�cial spokespersonG Niranjan said the EC has tofollow some rules and regula-tions. Unfortunately, it informedsuddenly to come to the EVMsgodown. “There were labourerspresent when we reached thegodown. There was no nodal o�-cer by the time. Nodal o�cer leftthe Godown before sealing theEVMs. They did not take upvideo recording. We are gettingseveral doubts on the EC’s ac-tions. It will create chaos duringelections”, he said.

Congress castsdoubts over ECaction on EVMs

Marri Shashidhar Reddy

Marri Shashidhar Reddythrows a challenge at the ECsaying that he is ready toprove that 25 lakh names aremissing from voters’ list

ADEPU MAHENDER

Narsampet: Finding consensus overNarsampet constituency appears tobe an unenviable task for the MahaKutami (Grand Alliance) partnerswith both the Congress and TeluguDesam candidates not willing to stepback from the ticket fray.

With two biggies - TDP politburomember Revuri Prakash Reddy, andsenior Congress leader and 2014 win-ner Donthi Madhava Reddy – claim-ing their stakes for the ticket, thecadres of both the leaders are a con-fused lot guessing which way the pen-dulum would swing.

Ever since the formation of GrandAlliance took a shape, Narsampet seathas become a bone of contention forboth the Congress and TDP.

Even though the Congress is firmon retaining its sitting MLAs, the TDPwhich likely to get around 15 con-stituencies in the seat sharing wantsto contest from where it feels strong.

It’s learnt that the TDP chief N

Chandrababu Naidu is keen to haveRevuri Prakash Reddy who won theseat thrice – in 1994, 1999 and 2009 –in the fray from Narsampet. Revuri,said to be one of Naidu’s trusted lead-ers in Telangana, has a strong cadrebase in the constituency.

Donthi, who won 2014 election asan independent after Congress re-fused to give him the ticket, had laterbecame associate member of thatparty. Against this backdrop, the Con-gress leadership appears to be in a pi-quant situation to refuse him theticket again.

There was a speculation thatPrakash Reddy might be asked to con-test from neighbouring Parkal seat.However, since Konda Surekhacrossed over to the Congress, more orless it is confirmed that she would befielded from Parkal constituency.With this development, the screeningcommittee of the Grand Alliance re-portedly came forward with the pro-posal of offering Warangal West seatto Prakash Reddy.

But Prakash Reddy’s followers claimthat whatever development took placein Narsampet is because of theirleader. This apart, they say, the leader’s

proximity to the constituency peoplewill help him win the seat easily. Thereis no point in contesting from otherconstituency, they said. A recent sur-

vey conducted by a vernacular elec-tronic media suggests that TDP hasmore advantage in Narsampet com-pared to other seats from where thatparty is proposed to contest. It is alsosaid in local political circles that ifMaha Kutami fails to give ticket toPrakash Reddy, the TRS leadership iskeen to offer him Narsampet seat inplace of its candidate Peddi SudarshanReddy. It’s also said that TRS in thepast had invited Prakash Reddy to itsfold but the latter declined to do so.

“The Narsampet ticket row be-tween Congress and TDP has becomea sensitive issue for the alliance part-ners. However, we are confident ofreaching consensus,” a senior Con-gress leader told The Hans India.

He said that the issue would re-solved after the All India CongressCommittee (AICC) President RahulGandhi’s one-day tour in the State. Itmay be noted here that Rahul Gandhiis scheduled to address public meet-ings in Hyderabad, Adilabad and Ka-mareddy on October 20.

TUG OF WAR FOR NARSAMPET SEAT

Donthi Madhava Reddy Revuri Prakash Reddy

13HYDERABAD MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 2018 NATION

‘AKBAR THE GREAT’ QUITS?

Odisha cop who led attack on Maoists awarded Ashok ChakraNew Delhi (PTI): An Assistant Comman-dant of the Odisha Police's Special Op-erations Group (SOG) has been con-ferred with the Ashok Chakraposthumously for sacrificing his lifewhile fighting the Naxals, home min-istry officials said on Sunday.

Assistant Commandant Pramod Ku-mar Satpathy laid down his life on Feb-ruary 16, 2008 during a fire-fight be-tween the security forces and theMaoists in the Gosama jungle of Ganjamdistrict and adjoining areas of Phulbanidistrict. Keeping in view his heroismand bravery, Satpathy was awardedwith the gallantry medal Ashok Chakraposthumously, a Home Ministry officialsaid. On February 15, 2008, at about

10.30 PM, more than 500 heavily armedNaxals carried out simultaneous andmulti-pronged attacks on the policetraining school (PTS) armouries locatedin Nayagarh police station, two other

police stations and one out post ofNayagarh and one police station andone out post in Ganjam, the officialssaid.

Naxalite cadres, many of them fromChhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh andJharkhand, participated in the operationin which more than 1,200 weapons ofvarious categories, including sophisti-cated ones, were looted and 14 policepersonnel and one civilian lost theirlives, the official said. After carrying outthe operations, the militants retreatedto the outlying jungle area of Ganjamand Phulbani districts in hijacked busesand other vehicles along with theirarms and ammunition. Immediately af-ter, Satpathy and other SOG members

rushed to Nayagarh on motor cycles.Assistant Commandant Satpathyquickly made a plan and with availableforces, including the SOG, the OrissaSpecial Armed Police, the CRPF sur-rounded the area where the Naxalswere hiding. Subsequently, the team ledby Satpathy mounted an assault. How-ever, the naxalites took advantage oftheir numerical strength and unleashedheavy fire, another official said.

In the encounter, the SOG team hadto retreat and in the ensuing operationSatpathy lost his life. The Ashok Chakrais the country's military award for val-our, courage action and self-sacrifice. Itis first in order of precedence of peace-time gallantry awards.

#METOO TSUNAMI HITS INDIA

Why Prime Minister Modi is silent on this issue?Union Minister of State for External Affairs

M J Akbar, who is facing allegations of sexualharassment by several women journalists fromthe time he was an editor, has resigned, theNews18 television channel reported quoting gov-ernment sources. The channel reports that Ak-bar, who returned to New Delhi from abroad, senthis resignation to Principal Secretary NripendraMishra and sought time to meet External AffairsMinister Sushma Swaraj. Meanwhile, the IndiaTV channel reported that Akbar has written aletter to the prime minister's office, explaininghis position over the allegations.

India TV also reports that the Modi govern-ment will take a call on Akbar very soon.

Over the last few days, multiple women haveoffered their accounts of alleged sexual harass-ment by Akbar when he was a journalist as the#MeToo movement picked up speed. GhazalaWahab detailed, on The Wire, her experienceworking for the Asian Age when he was editor inchief of the paper. She accused him of repeatedlyharassing her physically and mentally to the

point that she was forced to quit the paper. Inthe last week, nine women have come out againstM.J. Akbar detailing harrowing accounts of sex-ual harassment. Priya Ramani, a journalist, hadouted him in one of her stories in Vogue withoutnaming him in 2017. She alleged that Akbar setup an interview late at night in a hotel room,asked her to have a drink with him and also to sit

11 women directors vow not towork with o�enders Critically-acclaimed directors such as Konkona Sen-sharma, Nandita Das, Meghna Gulzar, Gauri Shinde, Ki-ran Rao, Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar are among theeleven women filmmakers who have pledged their sup-port to India's #MeToo movement. Celebrities such asNana Patekar, Rajat Kapoor, Subhash Kapoor, AlokNath, Subhash Ghai, Vikas Bahl, Kailash Kher, SajidKhan, Mukesh Chhabra and comedy group AIB, AditiMittal, singer Raghu Dixit, Tamil lyricist-poet Vaira-muthu have been named and shamed.

next to him on the bedall the while singingold Hindi songs.“Never named him be-cause he didn’t ‘do’anything. Lots ofwomen have worsestories about thispredator – maybethey’ll share,” shetweeted.

The Congressstepped up its attackon Prime MinisterNarendra Modi overthe allegations of sexual harassment against Akbar, saying his silencewas "conspicuous and unacceptable".

Senior party leader Anand Sharma questioned Modi's silence on theissue and said as the head of the government he should speak on theissue. "It is for the prime minister to speak on this issue, let the countryjudge its PM by his actions. So far his silence is conspicuous. This questionis not only the moral authority of the government, but his own also, andthe dignity of the office he holds," Sharma said. He claimed a PM, whoswears by "Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao" and talks of women dignity, haschosen to be silent. Meanwhile, the Delhi Commission for Women haslaunched a separate email address to report cases of sexual harassmentunder the #MeToo movement. The DCW has set up a separate email idfor reporting the complaints at [email protected]. One can also call181 for any assistance regarding the same, the DCW said .

Union minister M J Akbar at his residence in New Delhi on Sunday


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